How many times would you be willing to get hurt before you start quitting on a dream?

How many times would you be willing to get hurt before you start quitting on a dream?

If you keep hoping for something good to happen, and you keep on giving yourself up, and opening yourself up to hurt, and you never seem to get what you want... is it time to stop wanting it?

All my life I've been taught the value of perseverance, but my experiences have also taught me the prudence of pragmatism. When is something so impractical it becomes harmful to keep wanting it? And when is something just another dream away from happening, in spite of all the hardships and difficulties you've already had to go through to continue dreaming it?

I guess this is what will ultimately determine how much you really want something. If you keep on bleeding for it, no matter how many times you've been disappointed, then I guess you must REALLY want it. Whether you're ever going to get it, though, is another matter entirely.

But I supposed there are worse things in life than dying with unfulfilled dreams. After all, if we always got what we wished for, were we ever wishing hard enough in the first place?

Points to ponder, surely...