Preventive care looks unnecessary until the alternative arrives.

Prevention always looks like an overreaction until the day it does not. The insurance, the checkup, the backup, the difficult conversation had early, all feel like effort spent on nothing, because their success is invisible. That is the permanent problem with preventive work. You are paying for an absence you can never observe.

When you are tempted to skip something protective because nothing is wrong, remember that nothing being wrong is the condition it is meant to preserve. Do it anyway. The evidence for it will never arrive in a satisfying form.