Some closed doors are answers disguised as disappointments.

A no can be an answer rather than an absence of one. When something you wanted closes, the immediate feeling is loss, and the loss is real. But some closings do the work of directing you, ruling out a path in a way that no amount of deliberation would have managed on its own.

Give the disappointment its time first, since rushing past it does not work. Later, ask what the closing rules out and what it leaves open. Sometimes the shape of what remains is clearer than it was before.