The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
“In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.”
“And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.”