It happens in flashes.
The job you did not take. The city you almost moved to. The relationship that never quite began but never fully disappeared either. Years later, some version of you is still there, stepping...
Most people have had the experience without trusting it.
You are in a conversation where the words sound right, the explanation is reasonable, and nothing openly dramatic is happening. And yet something in you has already tightened....
You get home, put your bag down, and instead of feeling restored, you feel strangely flat.
Heavy. Irritable. More tired than before you left.
That reaction...