Zoom out five years. Most of today’s disasters become one-sentence stories.

Scale changes what things look like. Something consuming your entire week now will, with enough distance, be summarized in a sentence, and half of them will not survive the retelling at all. That is not a claim that it does not hurt today. It is a fact about how memory eventually files things.

Think back to what was ruining your life two years ago, specifically. Notice how much detail is already gone. Then ask whether this week’s version will get its own paragraph in five years, and let the honest answer set how much of you it gets.