Think about the rockiest moments in your life. At the time, those moments felt like the world was ending. Now, they’re battle scars you occasionally look back on and have learned from.
The further you get from a moment in time, the more condensed it gets in your memory.
The common four years of struggle in high school blur into memory as “the awkward teen years.”
Even a decade-long global economic crisis like The Great Depression gets boiled down to a few pages in the history books.
Why does this matter?
It helps put into perspective that time heals tough times and that the world moves on. Savor the good times and know that the bad times will eventually become a blip in retrospect.