It happens when you are working on a computer. You type, your screen freezes and then you realise that all your precious work has been lost. It happens when you are knitting too. You just have to lose count and you can end up with a whole load more to go back on and redo. In so many of life's greatest and most potentially rewarding pursuits, there are inevitably moments when we clasp our hands to our forehead and say, 'Oh'.  Likewise Recent events have exasperated you. But coming events will delight you this is sum total of our life.
If you find yourself wrestling with a question that you don't know how to answer, what does this say about you? Are you healthy? Are you confused? Actually, healthy and confused are not opposite extremes of any scale. It is perfectly possible to be healthy and confused. Indeed, arguably, confusion is a reliable indicator of sanity and perspicacity! Planet Earth is a crazy place. To see it as anything other than that is to miss the point! There's a good reason why a current question is so hard to answer - as soon you shall see!
 'It won't make you weak, if you turn the other cheek, I hope you are old enough to understand, Son, you don't have to fight to be a man.' So sang Kenny Rogers in Coward Of The County. It was a strange song. Half a homily to the virtue of non-violence and half a justification for acts of outrageous barbarism. But then all of us who have experience moments when our creed is much easier to preach than to practise. You may not be able to live up to your highest ideal but you can at least try. Earlier a tablet was something that you took if you were poorly. Now it is something that you take with you everywhere you go while you run your fingers across its screen accessing apps.  In this modern, sophisticated, civilised, hi-tech world full of  gadgets, are any of us even a tiny bit happier? In your life, If you face something of an old-fashioned problem. It is calling out for an old-fashioned solution.
We all know how it feels to have too little of something that we wish we had more of. And how frustrating it can be to have too much of something we wish we had a lot less of! Why do we end up with so many undesirable surpluses and regrettable shortfalls? Wouldn't it be nice if we could just wave a wand and rebalance our lives so that they contain precisely the right amount of everything? There is no wand, other than slow, steady effort of the kind that you are making, it starts to pay off soon provided you do not give up.