You outgrew your favorite toys without noticing. You’ll outgrow some of today’s problems the same way.

Growing out of something almost never announces itself. There was no final day with the toy, no ceremony, just a week where you reached for something else and never went back. Certain problems leave the same way, not solved so much as outsized by you. It helps to know that while you are inside one that feels permanent.

Think of a thing that wrecked you two years ago and try to feel it now. Most likely you cannot get all the way there. That does not make today’s problem fake, it just tells you the shape of what you are standing in is temporary.