I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
When Khalid Hosseini wrote “I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does” I had to put the book down for a minute.