The movie in your head doesn’t always play out like you hope. And as much as you want everything to work in your bidding, life is too complex to be like that.
Because regardless of doing all the things you have control over, there are always unaccounted externalities that follow their own schedule. So while the invisible deadlines seem to come back at you with a taunt, getting back up and continuing to move forward remains a choice you have to keep on choosing.