Aries
The danger of the single story is that it creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Small resentments grow not because the original offense was so large, but because you keep adding the same story to it every time it comes up. Each new instance gets filed under the same heading, and the heading becomes heavier than any single event deserves. You know this is happening even as you do it, the way you can feel yourself reaching for the familiar complaint before the person has finished talking. The resentment feeds on its own predictability, and breaking it requires you to see this next instance as its own thing, not as proof of the larger pattern you have been building.