People usually get lost in two ways.

The first is confusing vision with goals.

In reality, you’ve never had a true vision you just thought you did.

What you’ve been pursuing from the start are goals.

Under pressure and responsibility, everything becomes structured around what needs to be achieved, and you start feeling a loss of meaning in the background.

So you keep pivoting, trying to scale, chasing one goal after another.

It creates a kind of inner depletion, a constant dissatisfaction, because a goal is never truly fulfilling. There’s always a “what’s next.”

And deep down, it’s a waste of potential because everything is oriented toward goals, instead of something greater.

The second is starting from a vision, but losing it while chasing the goals that were supposed to serve it.

At the beginning, it was there clear, alive.

Then the goals took over, and everything slowly reversed.
Now, you can’t really tell what comes from the vision anymore and what has been built around it.

And yet, the vision is still there.
Even when the personas fall away, even when the goals collapse, even when what the ego built no longer holds… it remains.

But it has become inaccessible.