Sometimes the delay you hated kept you out of something worse. You won’t always find out.

You only ever see the road you took, which leaves the costs of the path you missed permanently unknown. Some delays turn out to have been protective and you will never get confirmation, because the version of events you avoided does not send word. None of this promises that every setback was secretly good, only that your information is incomplete.

When something is blocked and you cannot see why, hold your judgment loosely for a while. Act on what is actually in front of you. Certainty about what a delay cost you was never on offer.