Is your "story" about what you should do keeping you from what you were meant to do?

My example of this is my art. I started to paint. I've always wanted to paint my entire life. I never did it ever. The only time I did it a little bit, I was studying abroad in Japan during college, and because nobody was watching, right? Nobody who knew me was there. I took some painting classes, but I came back like it never happened because for me, painting just felt like this self-indulgence had nothing to do with building a career, taking care of my family, right? That was my story. And then after I I was totally burnt out. I shut down the company. I laid off my team. I was, you know, in this really rough place. I couldn't do the things I thought I should do. I literally could not work. So I gave myself a little permission to, okay, start painting. But even then I did it so quietly. I did it like in a way that, I mean, my family knew, but a little bit. I didn't show my art to anyone. It took, I mean, I started to then put it on my walls. It took another 5 or 6 years