A car parked in the garage forever still gets flat tires. Avoiding life doesn’t protect you from wear.

Staying still is not neutral. Things left unused come apart in their own quiet way, and a life kept carefully out of motion still loses air. The damage from avoidance arrives without noise, so it feels like safety right up until you try to move and find that you cannot. Withdrawal postpones risk, it does not cancel wear.

Pick one thing you have been keeping in the garage and take it out this week, even briefly. A conversation you keep sidestepping, a class you stopped attending, a message left open. Movement does not have to be dramatic before it counts as maintenance.