I suppose the inverse is true too
(see previous post). The Incremental Bad can roll out in your day to day, threaded in everything you do and think, and turn out to be determinative & definitive in the demeanor, tempo, and temper, of your Life. It's a long twisty, narrative of tiny mis-steps, decidedly bad choices, deeply wrong turns, sadly missed appointments & opportunities, scary unhealthy habits, strangely unsuitable role models, deep-tunnel-thinking. One day you wake up and find that you are living
in a van down by the river. You look out on the shabby, dusty, dirty boulevard and wonder: "WTF happened?!" The road to perdition...