What looks sudden often spent a long time becoming inevitable.

Sudden is often just the last visible moment of a long process. A resignation, a breakup, a collapse, a diagnosis, most have a slow history that was not being watched, or was being watched and quietly explained away. The event was the surfacing, not the beginning.

Ask what is quietly accumulating in your life right now that has not produced an event yet. Strain in a relationship, a debt, a piece of your health you have not looked at. Attention paid early is worth far more than attention paid on the day.