The intersection of our self-given narratives to our lives avoiding confrontation with the secret desires of our shadow self finds a strange armistice in our minds. And that is ok.
If our baseline narrative is 100% successful, one bad moment may seemingly deem the rest of the progress—the integral—irrelevant and worthless. I think this mindset is often a helpful propellant. But I’d like to get past that way of thinking. Life isn’t this binary.