The Modern Glorification of Locking In

Everybody’s talking about “locking in” these days. Like, if you’re not cutting people off, not sleeping, not talking to anyone, then you’re not serious. It’s almost like suffering has become proof of focus.

And don’t get me wrong, locking in is powerful. When you finally decide to take something seriously, when you start blocking out noise, you see how far you can actually go. You start moving different. Your energy changes. You learn discipline, you grow, you find out what you’re really made of.

But nobody talks about when you lock in, give everything you’ve got, and it still doesn’t work. When you spend months or even years pushing, praying, staying focused, and then one day it just falls apart. That feeling hits different. It’s like you gave so much of yourself that you don’t even know who you are outside that thing anymore.

That’s the part they don’t show on social media. The quiet moments. The burnout. The loneliness. The nights where you sit there thinking, “Was all this even worth it?”

Locking in can build you, but it can also break you if you’re not careful. Because focus is good, but balance is better. You have to remind yourself that your worth isn’t tied to what works out. Even if it doesn’t go the way you planned, you still learned, you still grew, you still showed up.

So yeah, lock in. Go hard. But don’t forget to live. Don’t forget yourself in the process.