How to Keep Going When It Feels Like You Missed Your Moment

You haven’t fallen behind. You’ve just outgrown someone else’s timeline.

On Tuesday, I shared a trap that’s quietly shaping too many of our stories:

The belief that it’s too late.

Too late to pivot.
Too late to heal.
Too late to be great.
Too late to do the thing we haven’t even admitted out loud.

What I know—because I’ve lived it—is that this trap doesn’t hit all at once.
It creeps in through the back door.
It sounds like logic, like maturity, like realism.

But what it really is… is grief.

Grief for the time we lost.
Grief for the girl we couldn’t protect.
Grief for the version of ourselves we thought we’d be by now.

So if you’ve been feeling stuck, ashamed, or low-key hopeless about your timeline—this post is for you.

Not because I have the fix.
But because I’ve had to keep moving while carrying that same grief in my own chest.

And I’ve learned a few things along the way.