There are moments in life when the door you were absolutely certain would open simply doesn’t. The job goes to someone else. The relationship ends. The opportunity disappears. The future you had already started living in your head suddenly isn’t available anymore. That’s exactly where Paul and Lyn begin this conversation.
But what happens next is where things get interesting.
Because we have a habit of assuming that whatever comes after our first choice must automatically be second best. We call it Plan B, the backup, the compromise—the life we ended up with instead of the life we wanted.
Paul and Lyn challenge that assumption with a question that becomes increasingly difficult to dismiss: What if the life you didn’t choose turns out to matter far more than the one you did?
And if that’s possible, maybe some of the closed doors we still regret deserve a second look
