They say that if something doesn't matter in ten years, it doesn't matter now. They say this to take the pressure off of present stresses, to bring "perspective."
But there is another perspective, equally true. If it matters now, it will matter more in ten years. It will gather 'matter' like a snowball, and in ten years, twenty years, it will be just as sharp a sting, but with the interest of decades of festering.
They don't tell you that you can spare yourself years of distress and possibly permanent sorrow or harm. Fix the foundations when you can, so you don't find yourself in ruins down the road.
