Similarly, the hardest decisions to make are often those for which the relevant factors are most closely balanced.
If the job would have involved doing cool things but the commute would have been better (or at least no worse than your current one), you’d have just felt bad at not getting it. And vice versa.
But when things are both good and bad, or (as someone else pointed out) it’s harder to sum all of the goodness and badness of the things, it’s harder to feel any one thing in particular, or to feel that consistently.
Similarly, the hardest decisions to make are often those for which the relevant factors are most closely balanced.
If the job would have involved doing cool things but the commute would have been better (or at least no worse than your current one), you’d have just felt bad at not getting it. And vice versa.
But when things are both good and bad, or (as someone else pointed out) it’s harder to sum all of the goodness and badness of the things, it’s harder to feel any one thing in particular, or to feel that consistently.