Just because she's prettier, doesn't mean she's not still pretty.

Juxtaposition: the general arrangement of everything you want relative to the one thing you really want.

I've always assumed that I would be the one to get what I truly desire out of life, leaving the rest to waste their years questioning whether they possess the necessary will and resolve to get behind everything they tell themselves. I see such people in all walks of life. They cannot hope for more out of fear of losing what they have. They cannon take the leap. In recognizing these people, I have led myself to believe that I am merely an observer to this depressing psychological phenomena.

The missing information leading to such a naïve conclusion has proven to be a factor of scale: the problem, as perceived incorrectly, is that of the fear of trading the comfortable for the uncomfortable, of one for the other. However, the world will not stand to have things so simply arranged. Up the ante: everything in exchange for the one thing greater than any one thing you have.

Why not have it all? It seems as though the higher we go in our list of desires, the greater the number of incompatibilities with everything below.

To follow your dreams will lead you away from your home and your friends. To follow your love will lead you away from every other person who has ever kept you up at night.

Are great men known for everything they've done? Or are they known for the one great thing that they threw everything else away for?

I wholeheartedly sympathize with everyone who succumbs to their fear.