One day you’ll walk past your old school and it’ll look smaller. That’s not the school shrinking. That’s you growing.

Buildings do not shrink. The hallway that felt enormous gets small because you brought a bigger person to look at it, and the same thing happens with the problems inside it. A conversation you are dreading, a class you cannot pass, a group you cannot crack: all of it is sized against the you that exists right now. Growing does not fix the thing so much as change the ratio.

When something feels too big this week, ask whether it is genuinely huge or whether you are simply early. Then do the part of it you can do at your current size. The rest usually looks different in a year.