The greatest comfort of growing older is discovering that you're once again in a predicament you experienced several years ago... and remembering exactly how you got out of it last time
TIRED: "Why am I back in this hole? I thought I'd gotten better!"
WIRED: "I bet I can set a new speedrun record for getting out of this hole"
this sort of thinking you’ve put forward is a great way of recontextualizing that reaction as “been there, done that” and i think that’s healthier.