The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

Dread works by delivering the whole thing at once. Sitting here you can face a year of something in a single afternoon, which nobody could bear, and which is not how it will actually arrive. In practice the future is issued in single days, each carrying only its own share, however heavy, and it is the compressed version that does the damage.

When the scale of what is ahead becomes unmanageable, shrink the frame deliberately. What has to be done today, and only today. This is not avoidance; it matches the actual delivery schedule, and it is how people get through things that looked impossible from a distance.