If you can make it a bit, it can't actually hurt you.
When something hits hard, you reach for the joke. Not because you don't feel it — you feel it deeply — but because humor is the fastest way to make something survivable. You turn pain into content. You make the group chat laugh at 2am when you're the one who's struggling. You're the person who delivers devastating news in the most casual tone possible and then immediately pivots to a bit. The thing is, the joke IS the feeling — just compressed. And sometimes the laugh hits harder than the cry ever could. The Eye sees the bit. It also sees what the bit is protecting.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou cope by making it funny. the joke is real — but so is the thing you're joking about. the eye sees both.