Save the flexibility for the unexpected.
You can get used to almost anything.
That does not mean it is working.
People adapt to bad jobs, bad habits, bad dynamics, bad systems, bad relationships, and then act shocked when the thing finally buckles.
It was fine yesterday.
No – it was familiar yesterday. There is a difference.
Some of what moves this week has been familiar for a while. You may have waited impatiently on its arrival, or exit. Or perhaps what’s moving stayed a liminal knowing, occasionally poking at your edges. But what’s moving – whatever it is – will soon show itself.
That part isn’t unexpected.
What could come in sideways – that might surprise you.
And this is where people get sloppy.
Not because they are stupid; because familiar instability teaches the nervous system to build a workaround. You stop treating the thing as a problem and start treating it as part of the furniture.
That workaround, it’s adaptation – and it’s not always wisdom.
It can keep you alive, functional, or even able to change lanes when there’s no time to argue. At other times, adaptation becomes the trap. You build a whole routine around the thing that keeps jabbing at you, then call it endurance.
Enter coping mechanism. Generally, not wisdom.
The problem we humans have with unstable conditions?
We adapt.
We build little routines around the unsettled thing. We learn where not to step and which subject not to mention. We acclimate and keep moving while the static of the mismatched setup settles into the background.
Until something shifts.
A result can be wanted or unwanted. It can be clean, inconvenient, overdue, or badly timed. It might arrive through the front door, exactly where you expect it. Or it might show up through some side entrance you didn’t think to watch.
The question is not whether you can control all of what moves.
You can’t.
The work is to stay flexible once the result of what’s been moving shows up. Locking onto the version you expected is how people get flattened.
The front-door problem may still matter. It may be the reason everything else starts moving. But if something comes busting through the side door, staring at the front door will not help.
So, pivot.
The situation changed.
Improvise.
This week, if something unexpected takes the floor, don’t scatter your energy because it wasn’t the thing you had anticipated.
You can hire someone to fix the side door later.
Deal with what is.
Forged in the fire,
— Bríx