I know, I know—after 36 hours of labor, 8,000 diapers, and one wildly regrettable family trip to Disney World, that may be hard to hear. But hang in there. Let’s unpack this idea with a little humor, a pinch of science, and a lot of caffeine.

Someone made up the rules. The calendar. The metrics. The pressure. This isn’t about rejecting reality. It’s about understanding who built it, why it worked, and deciding, intentionally, which parts still deserve your energy.

Your personality isn’t determined by the stars. Mercury isn’t in retrograde just because your Wi-Fi dropped. And no, Chad didn’t ghost you because he’s a Sagittarius with a Capricorn moon. He ghosted you because he’s Chad.

You think the Earth needs 24 different times? No. Earth is just spinning in a circle, minding its own business. It’s humans who decided to slap an invisible grid on it and start calling it “8:00 AM in Newark” and “tomorrow in Australia.”