The phrase for now can make an arrangement temporary in speech and permanent in practice.
GRATITUDE
GRATITUDE
For now is one of the most quietly permanent phrases in the language. It grants an arrangement temporary status so nobody has to argue about it, and that provisional label is exactly what lets it survive unexamined for years. The words say this will be revisited, and the absence of any mechanism for revisiting is what makes it stick.
Look at what in your life is officially temporary. The job, the living situation, the way a task got divided between two people. Ask when it started, and whether anything is scheduled to end it. If nothing is, decide deliberately whether to keep it, because keeping it by default is already the decision you are making.
Which temporary arrangement of yours has quietly become permanent?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.