Your hardest moment is a screenshot. Your life is the full video.

A single frame carries no before and no after, which is exactly what makes it misleading. The worst hour of your year sits inside days that were nothing like it, and pulled out on its own it looks like the whole story. People do this to themselves constantly, judging years by one still image. Context is not an excuse, it is accuracy.

When a memory shows up on repeat, deliberately put the surrounding week back around it, what happened the day before and what you did afterwards. Not to soften it, just to see the thing at real size.