The modern idea of “awakening” has been softened until it’s meaningless. It’s been turned into inspiration.Aesthetic quotes.Dopamine hits dressed up as depth. That isn’t awareness.That’s emotional anesthesia. Real awakening is disruptive. It fractures identity. It dismantles routines that kept you functional but blind. It rewires relationships by exposing which ones were built on truth—and which ones survived only because you were asleep. Awareness does not arrive with comfor