Not everything needs your reaction. Some things just need you to keep walking.

A reaction is something you give, not something that gets taken. Plenty of what comes at you in a day is just noise looking for a response, and the response is the only thing that keeps it alive. Walking on costs you nothing and ends it immediately. The hard part is that staying quiet can feel like losing, when mostly it feels like relief an hour later.

Pick one thing today you would normally answer and simply do not: the comment, the jab in the group chat, the driver who cut in. Notice how little you lose. That gap between the provocation and your reply is yours to widen.