Missing your flight feels like the end of the world until the agent says there’s another one at 4.

Panic almost always arrives before information. For the first few minutes a missed connection is a catastrophe, then somebody at a desk mentions the later one and the whole thing shrinks to an inconvenience with a time attached. Plenty of emergencies behave like that. The size drops as soon as you learn the facts.

When something goes wrong this week, give yourself one job before reacting, which is to find out the actual options. Ask whoever would know, and let their answer set the size of the problem.