Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
People fail forward to success.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.