I’m sharing this because I wish someone had told me earlier that ignoring your posture quietly wrecks you. I work on a laptop all day. At first it was just stiffness. Then it became a constant burn between my shoulders, neck pain that crept into headaches, and this ugly slouch I noticed every time I caught my reflection on a Zoom call.

I tried stretching, fixing my chair, even reminding myself to “sit straight,” which worked for about five minutes before my body folded back into the same position. The worst part was the fear. I kept thinking, if I feel this bad in my twenties, what does this look like in ten years?