My parents’ attitudes are very much more oriented toward hard work becoming success and that if you haven’t gotten what you wanted, it’s because you haven’t tri

My parents’ attitudes are very much more oriented toward hard work becoming success and that if you haven’t gotten what you wanted, it’s because you haven’t tried hard enough yet. In a way, they’re right. I’d love a 911 GT3, and I could almost certainly get one, if only for a short period of time, and with the benefit of armed robbery. There’s a lot of things I’ve “chosen” to consider instead of putting everything aside to chase a dream. In more concrete terms, anyone can have anything they want, but what you have to give up for it matters. And that’s something I think my parents and people like them don’t think about. Not everyone has the emotional construction, or even the ability to give up aspects of their life to achieve what they want. I think a large part of “luck” is when the time comes to make a hard decision like that, some fortunate circumstance made swallowing that pill a bit easier.