No one wants to experience heartbreak.

We resist it, fear it, do everything we can to avoid it. We tell ourselves that if we just make the right choices, build the right walls, and protect ourselves well enough, we can keep from breaking.

But at some point, life has its way with us.

We lose people we love.
We fail at something we deeply cared about.
We experience rejection, disappointment, loss.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve lived with an inner voice that told me I wasn’t quite there yet.

We live in a world that glorifies speed.

Faster results. Faster responses. Faster success.

If we’re not moving quickly, we feel like we’re falling behind. If we’re not constantly achieving, we wonder if we’re doing enough. Productivity has become the measure of our worth.

But something in us—something deep, something essential—was never meant to move at this speed.

The deepest part of us, the part that longs for meaning and connection, doesn’t thrive in urgency.

It thrives in presence.