The choices that shape you most rarely feel historic while you are making them.

The decisions that shape a life usually feel minor at the time. A conversation you had, a job you took because it was available, a habit you started casually. Significance is assigned afterwards, which means you cannot rely on feeling the weight of the important ones as they pass.

Give your ordinary decisions a little more care than they seem to warrant. Not anxiety, just attention. The ones that turn out to matter will not have identified themselves.