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Spark is 1-to-1 connections via DMs, audio or video calls. For video both members must approve the jump from audio to video.

A friend calls, in pieces, for the fourth time this month. You care. You genuinely do. And you also feel your stomach drop when you see their name on the screen, and then feel…

You would have told anyone that you were fine about your friend moving away. Then a song comes on in a supermarket and you are suddenly, embarrassingly close to tears next to the…

Someone asks you a direct question in front of people who respect you. You know roughly the shape of the answer. You do not know the specifics. And you hear yourself producing…

Your hands are steady. Your voice is level. Your heart is going like a washing machine full of bricks and you are convinced everyone can hear it.

You have been treated carelessly by someone, so you go into the next conversation with an edge in your voice. They hear the edge, get defensive, and behave carelessly again. You…

Someone you like says something you think is genuinely harmful. You have two options in your head, and both are bad: nod along and hate yourself, or push back and detonate the…

You said the thing confidently in a meeting. Three days later you have quietly realised you were wrong, and you now have to decide whether anyone finds out.

You know the decision. You know it will hurt someone. So you wait, and you are telling yourself you are waiting out of kindness.

You are meant to be the steady one. You are also, currently, not steady. So you say nothing, which works right up until someone else admits they are struggling and you realise you…