Aug 17, 2026 · 1 hr · 13 segments
**Life Check**: Qurissy asks Lena Elgabalawy to break down being a woman containing multitudes through 3 pillars: Perception, Desire, & Reality. Lena is a multi-hyphenate creative! She's a…
Lena ElgabalawyGuestQurissyHostSo as a part of this idea, I've been thinking a lot about the possibilities that you might not get the opportunity to do or be or make everything you desire, right? That depresses me, but I don't actually think it's a depressing thing.
It's just the truth of the matter.
I think anything is possible and nothing is impossible, but we here on limited time.
So we can only do and be as much based on as much time as we have here.
And we don't know how much time we got here.
Right.
So what I was like, you know,
ever struggle with any fear around that.
Or if inversely you, I grow any, think about that.
I just be on my grind.
OK, so the question is, do I fear not being able to do all of the multitudes of things that I desire to do in this life? That's such an interesting one.
And it's more so, like, it's not a fear of being able to cross every single thing off the list.
It's
You know what I'm saying? And then there's certain things that, you know, certain ideas or concepts or endeavors that...
I really want to do you know before it's too late so some kind of take precedence over others like for example I really want to do about a documentary like a short film documentary about my auntie in Oakland who has like lived in Oakland for like 50 60 plus years and she she just has such an interesting story and she's old as hell like she's an old lady so you know if I wasn't able to do that like you know, before either me or her transitioned eventually, I would probably be devastated.
You know,
so there's certain things that have a little more urgency and a little bit more fear attached.
But it's not like I'm not worried about not doing like everything in general I think it can get a little overwhelming so like maybe that's where a little bit of fear is attached is like I have all these things like am I going to really push myself to do it but it's not quite a fear of like not doing it at all or in general it's more like there are certain things I really know I desire to create before I go And like some of these ideas, they feel bigger than others for creatives.
almost haunting you or just on your back.
Like, are you going to completely?
So as a part of this idea, I've been thinking a lot about the possibilities that you might not get the opportunity to do or be or make everything you desire, right? That depresses me, but I don't actually think it's a depressing thing.
It's just the truth of the matter.
I think anything is possible and nothing is impossible, but we here on limited time.
So we can only do and be as much based on as much time as we have here.
And we don't know how much time we got here.
Right.
So what I was like, you know,
ever struggle with any fear around that.
Or if inversely you, I grow any, think about that.
I just be on my grind.
OK, so the question is, do I fear not being able to do all of the multitudes of things that I desire to do in this life? That's such an interesting one.
And it's more so, like, it's not a fear of being able to cross every single thing off the list.
It's
You know what I'm saying? And then there's certain things that, you know, certain ideas or concepts or endeavors that...
I really want to do you know before it's too late so some kind of take precedence over others like for example I really want to do about a documentary like a short film documentary about my auntie in Oakland who has like lived in Oakland for like 50 60 plus years and she she just has such an interesting story and she's old as hell like she's an old lady so you know if I wasn't able to do that like you know, before either me or her transitioned eventually, I would probably be devastated.
You know,
so there's certain things that have a little more urgency and a little bit more fear attached.
But it's not like I'm not worried about not doing like everything in general I think it can get a little overwhelming so like maybe that's where a little bit of fear is attached is like I have all these things like am I going to really push myself to do it but it's not quite a fear of like not doing it at all or in general it's more like there are certain things I really know I desire to create before I go And like some of these ideas, they feel bigger than others for creatives.
almost haunting you or just on your back.
Like, are you going to completely?
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