Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Stay in place long enough and your faults stop being faults. They turn into your character, and people quietly plan around them. The same slow current that builds a reputation also sands the edges off what was wrong with you, until something that should have been corrected years ago is simply how you are. That is comfortable, and it is a trap, because by then mentioning it would seem rude.

Pick one thing about yourself that people have stopped raising and ask whether the silence is approval or fatigue. Long standing is not the same as being right.