If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
Desire sounds easy until you count the price.
Philip Pullman’s Clockwork, or All Wound Up says you don’t just want the prize—you must want the grind that forges it.
That means long nights, the hard work behind success, and the hollow days when nothing seems to move.
It asks you to carry despair without letting it carry you.
You also have to step into risk, willing to fail publicly so you can learn privately.
If you only want the shining end, you’ll drop the burden halfway and lose both time and courage.
But if you accept the whole bundle, you turn obstacles into training and fear into focus.
This is how we risk failure to achieve dreams and grow big enough to hold them.
Want the goal, yes—but want the journey even more, and it will make you worthy of what you seek.