"Too many times I've made a situation worse by forcing certainty where there was none, and by acting impulsively without full knowledge of the consequence. And I've always wished, in hindsight, that I had given up instead of pushing through.
The first reason is that patterns emerge when things are allowed to settle. In rest, your brain and body consolidate. Your synapses light up in unprecedented order, forging new pathways of clarity. The scales fall from your eyes when you're not even looking.
That's why everything seems clearer in the morning and why Eureka moments happen in the bathtub.
The second, perhaps more important, reason is that forcing oneself to walk away from a situation that seemed so life-and-death will always reveal its triviality.
A problem that seems to take you to the edges of mental well-being now will seem like a drop in the ocean of life's experiences later on. It may take a week, or a month , or years, but water finds its own level, and often that level is: So it goes.
Force yourself to let it go, and it will return in a less desperate form. And when it does, you may find that you simply don't care at all."
~ Rachel Chang, The Straits Time