Following the rules is not easy. Especially when you don't agree with the rules you are following. But the worst, in my opinion, is when you agree with the rules, but someone or something causes you to be in direct conflict with rules. When that happens it becomes a game of choosing the lesser of two evils.
On one hand you have the rule that will be violated. You will be a rule breaker. On the other the conflict that will result from you following the rules. You will be a square, stickler, a goody two shoes. There is no win-win here, just win-lose. Which side you wind up on really doesn't matter at the end of the day, as long as you know that you make the best decision you could have made at the time.
Which is why so many of my bad decision seemed so right at the time, and so many of my good decisions looked so bad when I made them.
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