There’s a cosmic law hidden in your coffee mug and your cousin’s vacation photos: sameness stales. Like bread left too long on the counter, doing the same thing with the same people over and over—without the yeasty rise of novelty—leads to the slow mold of disconnect.
Here’s the paradox: we crave comfort, but bond through disruption.
It’s not the 97th happy hour that binds you to your colleague. It’s the one time you spontaneously signed up for a pottery class together and both made bowls that looked like abstract interpretations of cereal sadness.
Shared new experiences are emotional epoxy. They invite vulnerability, spark surprise, and create a memory only the two (or ten) of you can point to and say, “remember when…”
That’s why teams that travel together grow tighter. That’s why friends who start weird projects together stay friends longer. That’s why love rekindles on unfamiliar ground—because novelty knocks the autopilot switch clean off the dashboard.
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