Why is it some things go bad right from the beginning and the harder you try to fix them, the badder they get.
At work we call it the ‘One Problem Twenty Problems’ syndrome.
The more urgent and important the thing is, the more likely we will encounter problems. But definitely, if it starts wrong it tends to spiral into madness, and the original one problem quickly becomes twenty new ones.
Eventually all gets solved, but it sure leaves some scars, and some lessons learned.
Some things are predictable – we just know it is going to go badly. Even then we seem powerless to stop what we know is coming.
It is a very strange phenomena.
It has been one of those weeks.