Trust Patterns, Not Explanations

After that, you trust actions over explanations, and you hate special exceptions.

You've heard every version of the same speech, the polished paragraph, the "let me explain,"

the late-night voice note that sounds so sincere it almost works like anesthesia. And you're not immune

to empathy, you do understand context, you understand stress, you understand messy

seasons, but you've lived long enough to notice something brutal: some people use

explanations the way other people use doors. They talk their way out,

and then walk right back into the same behavior. So you don't get hypnotized by reasons

anymore, because reasons can be true and still be irrelevant. "I didn't mean it,