Nobody gets a “previously on” recap for their own life. Pay attention to the episode you’re in.

Stories come with summaries and lives do not. There is no voice reminding you what mattered six months ago, which is how patterns repeat quietly: the same argument, the same month of drifting, with nothing stitching them together into something you can see. Attention has to do the job a recap would do.

Write five lines at the end of this week about what actually happened, not how you felt about it. Read the last five before writing the next. It is a very low effort way of spotting what keeps coming back around.