The plant nearest the path receives attention the others may need equally.

Proximity gets mistaken for priority all the time. Whatever sits where you walk gets watered, weeded and admired, not because it needs it most but because it is where your hands already are. The ones at the back are on their own, and their decline is slower to spot because nobody goes there. Teams, friendships and parts of your own life all distribute care by the same accident of layout.

Go to the back of something this week. The colleague who never asks, the friend who is easy to postpone, the room you avoid. Attention given deliberately corrects for a path you did not choose.