Seneca once said, “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

You want something so bad that thoughts of it consume you. You wake up, and it’s there. You go to sleep, and it’s there. You see how it can happen, and every day take steps to getting it done. Hurdles, obstacles, obstructions appear, and you find a way around them. Day after day. Week after week. Sometimes year after year.

It’s called the path less traveled for a reason. Because that path is a real bitch. Here’s a little bit of Charlie B. to continue that thought:

If you’re going to try, go all the way.

Otherwise, don’t even start.

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.

It could mean not eating for three or four days.

It could mean freezing on a park bench.

It could mean jail.

It could mean derision.

It could mean mockery- isolation, isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance,

                        of how much you really want to do it.

And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds.

And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you’re going to try, go all the way.

There is no other feeling like that.

You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.

You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.

It’s the only good fight there is.

-Charles Bukowski