@kazani
Most people imagine bad decisions as dramatic moments.
A single mistake.
A single wrong turn.
One catastrophic choice that changes everything.
But a lot of life's deepest troubles arrive differently.
You compromise once because you're tired.
Then again because it feels practical.
Then a third time because reversing course suddenly seems inconvenient.
Nothing feels significant enough to trigger alarm.
Which is why you barely notice the pattern forming underneath you.
I think that's how people end up in a quagmire.
Not through one terrible decision.
Through a hundred small accommodations that each felt reasonable in isolation.
A job you no longer respect.
A relationship built on avoided conversations.
A lifestyle assembled from defaults rather than choices.
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