#36 Your Addiction to Closure Is the Death of Your Becoming

You can’t sit through a film anymore. You blame the short videos. You’re wrong.

The real culprit is your inability to endure the middle. Every great thing takes time to appear. A relationship, a truth, a strength — they all have a long middle where nothing seems to happen. But you’ve been trained to expect a reward every minute. So you leave before anything shows up. You’re not lazy. You’re a coward before the incomplete. The price of meaning is the willingness to wait.