U-turns are legal in life. The only illegal move is pretending you aren’t lost.

Changing direction is always available, at any age and any distance in. What closes off options is the refusal to admit you are off course, because you cannot correct a route you are still insisting is correct. Sunk time feels like a reason to continue and almost never is.

Say the sentence out loud to one person this week, even if it is only that you are not sure about this any more. Admitting it is the entire hard part. The turn itself is usually smaller and duller than the dread suggests.