It’s never straightforward

In retrospect, it’s easy to wonder why things weren’t more straightforward. Why didn’t he/she/you just do “that?” That seems so painfully obvious.

Thanks to our inherent flaws and irrationality, human life is never straightforward. The path will never be a straight line.

Painfully obvious is only painfully obvious when someone points it out to you.

Embrace the squiggly line.