You will never know how many small decisions by strangers made your ordinary day possible.

Your uneventful day was held up by an enormous number of small decisions made by people you will never meet. Someone checked something properly, someone drove through the night, someone chose the safer option when nobody would have known. The whole arrangement is invisible precisely because it worked.

A good use of that thought is to make you slightly more careful with your own small decisions, since you are somewhere in someone else’s invisible support. And when something does break, it may help to remember how much did not, rather than treating the one failure as the state of the world.