There’s a kind of logic we all secretly operate by, even though we’d never admit it out loud. Press enter or click to view image in full size AI-Generated image by Author Someone hurts you, so you say something sharper back. Someone embarrasses you, so you find a way to embarrass them. Someone cuts you off in traffic, and suddenly you’re tailgating a stranger on a Tuesday afternoon, completely convinced that justice is being served. We call it balance. We call it standing up for ourselves. But somewhere beneath the justification, most of us know — we’re just adding another wrong to the first one and hoping the math works out. It never really does. Think about the last time you were genuinely caught in a mistake. Not a dramatic one — just a small, ordinary one. Maybe you were late. Maybe you forgot something. Maybe you said something that landed the wrong way. What was the first thing your mind did? For a lot of us, the answer is: it went looking for company. Not the good kind.…