How many years of our lives are spent trying to open something that was never meant to open?

In this episode, I reflect on the difference between persistence and alignment, between loyalty and longing, between staying because something is right and staying because we hope it will become right.

Looking back, some of the greatest lessons of my life did not come from closed doors. They came from the walls I mistook for doors—relationships, beliefs, and dreams that I kept trying to enter, convinced that if I just loved harder, waited longer, or sacrificed more, something would finally change.

This is not a story about regret.

It is a story about awakening.

About recognizing the difference between what nourishes us and what merely sustains us. About the quiet ways we abandon ourselves in the name of survival. And about the freedom that comes when we stop trying to force an entrance and begin trusting what life is trying to show us.

If you've ever found yourself exhausted from pushing against something that wouldn't move, this conversation may resonate with you.

Take what resonates. Leave the rest.

The story is still unfolding.