The strangest thing about being alive may be how quickly the impossible becomes ordinary once it happens to you.

Whatever you once thought would be unbearable or unimaginable, if it happens, becomes daily life with startling speed. The loss, the illness, the enormous change, and equally the thing you longed for. Within months it is simply your situation, and the person you were before cannot quite be recovered.

That cuts both ways and it is worth knowing both. The good thing you are waiting for will normalise, so build your life around more than that. And the thing you fear you could not survive would also become ordinary, which is not a consolation exactly, but it is true.