Your hardest week will feel endless while it’s happening and tiny looking back. Both are true.

Two measurements of the same week can both be accurate. From inside, time slows and every day is long, because difficulty makes you feel each hour. From a year away it is a short stretch you can describe in one sentence. Neither view is false, and the one available to you right now is the long one.

While you are in it, use the near view to get through the next few hours, not the whole month. Once it is over, let the far view say how long it really lasted. Write the date down somewhere, because later you will want to know which week it was.