Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Distance rearranges things. Seen from far enough out, the argument that ate a fortnight, the setback that seemed to define a year, the mistake you keep replaying all lose their jaggedness and take their place among everything else that happened. Nothing about the events changes; the proportion does, and proportion is most of what distress is made of.

You can borrow that view without waiting years for it. Ask how this will look from a decade away, or how much of the last decade you can recall in any detail now. Some things survive that test and have earned your attention. Most do not, which is useful to discover early.