To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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