From a plane, the biggest bridge looks like a toothpick. Perspective shrinks most problems.

Size depends entirely on where you are standing. The thing filling your whole head today is a normal-sized event from six months away, and the distance does not make it fake, only proportionate. Problems grow in close quarters, which is why they are always biggest at midnight in your own room.

Borrow some distance this week when something feels enormous. Ask how much of it you will still be carrying next spring. Walk outside, or ring someone who is not involved. The problem does not shrink, but you get bigger standing next to it.