1 December 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2938: a very bad sign

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The indicator itself wasn't really terrible. Just faded red letters on broken wood: Bridge Out Ahead.

Still, she continued driving.

Your response to the sign, not the sign itself, will help you to determine whether it is extremely negative. When warnings turn suggestions. Red flags appear like finish lines. when every reasonable component of your brain is shouting stop and you push the gas heavier.

Her therapist would refer to it as self-sabotage. Her mother would term it stupidity. She called it Tuesday.

If you are ready to see them, signs are everywhere. The manner he discusses his former lover. The job offer too wonderful asks you to overlook three distinct gut feelings. The buddy who only phoning when something is required. Your body says no whereas your mouth says sure; I can help.

Only if you read it is a really negative indication.

Most of us are functionally illiterate about our own life. We see the warnings; we are not blind; we just decide they don't apply to us. We are not similar. Though it's out for everybody else, the bridge will hold for us.

I understood. Still, I went anyhow.

The worst of it is that.