Growing older reveals how many problems disappeared without receiving the dramatic ending you expected.

You brace for a confrontation, a resolution, a moment where it all comes to a head, and instead things just gradually stopped being a problem. Most difficulties end this way, undramatically, without anyone declaring them over. The endings we imagine are shaped by stories rather than by how life actually works.

That is worth holding when you are in the middle of something. It may not require the confrontation you are dreading. Many things simply resolve through time and small changes, and you only notice afterward that they are gone.