Failure Resume

There is one room in the house you have built that you have never entered.

You know it's there. For years you've organized your days to avoid the corridor that leads to it. Behind the door is every failure you never metabolized — every rejection, every quiet defeat, every version of yourself you abandoned the moment being it became unbearable. And you've been telling yourself, for as long as you can remember, that the room is small. A closet. A dead corner of the floor plan. No big deal.

It's...