Originally Posted by
Florence 
I guess... well, wishful thinking is different from planning. You can't build a castle on sand, right?
I've fallen into this trap of thinking so many times. Someone recently told me that life will provide us with the same lesson over and over and over again until we finally get it through our heads. That felt true to me. Holding on to the dream, long after that dream should have dissolved, long after the point where my mental and emotional health is at risk, is one of mine. I'm still working on it.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result. This will just keep going around in circles until you decide to do something about it. You're not stuck in anything, you just aren't doing anything to change it.