Someone decides early what you're worth and then stops looking.
You feel that as rejection, so you set about correcting it. More effort. Better evidence. The version of you that shows up when someone actually wants it there.
None of it was ever going to arrive.
They weren't weighing you up. They were walking past.
What they walked past was the work you'd have done for them and the years of it they could have had.
They spent that on nothing and they'll never learn the price.
You can't argue it into them either, because value doesn't transfer through explanation.
It transfers when someone chooses to look.
So they left settled.
You're still holding a receipt for a sale that never happened.
Put it down.
It's the one part of this you're still in charge of.
