Up close, the drama looks enormous. Zoom out to a whole year and it fits in one line.

Scale distorts badly when you are standing inside something. The argument, the mistake, the humiliating afternoon fill the entire frame while they are happening, because nothing else is in view. Across a year most of them shrink to a sentence, and many never make the summary at all. That is not a claim that it does not matter now, only a fact about proportion.

Ask what this will amount to in twelve months. If the honest answer is one line, give it an afternoon rather than a month of your attention.