You don't lose control all at once. You lose it in quiet moments— when nothing looks wrong on the surface, but you feel yourself stepping outside of how you said you would move. Not when something goes wrong. When you continue after you already know you shouldn't. That's the moment. Everything after that is just the consequence catching up. And I know that moment. I've lived it. More than once. I've got the emotional receipts. They're filed under "Why Did I Do That." I didn't