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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.