You’re in the middle of your story. Nobody judges a book by chapter six.

Judging an unfinished thing by where it currently stands is a category error. The middle of anything looks unresolved, because that is what a middle is for, and the parts that will make sense of it have not been written yet. Whatever feels incomplete about your position now is not a verdict on it.

When you catch yourself grading a whole life by one month, notice that you are reviewing a fragment. Ask what would need to be true two years out for this stretch to read as necessary. Then go and do the next bit of that.