One thing at a time...

What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It's okay to look back to see how far you've come, but keep moving forward. The journey to your dreams and your greatest self will bring you down thousands of times, and this will be the very sign that you are on the right path. Getting started is the easy part. The difficult part is the struggle to keep going when you are not motivated. Get back up because it takes commitment, discipline, and sacrifice to get to where you are trying to go.

Karr shut his eyes. His heart pounding, he sat floating in the darkness behind his eyelids, resolutely trying not to think of his losses. But the face of failure appeared against the blank screen of his closed eyelids anyway - not smiling at him but looking sidelong, and he could see the scar at failure's temple, the uneven curl at the corner of the mouth, and the silver line on the throat. A bright light lit his vision to scarlet, and he fell back against the grass, wondering if he was going to pass out - or maybe he was dying - but he didn't want to die, not now, not yet. He needed to be jolted out of it. So he kept repeating in his mind, hoping to spring himself awake. Karr. Karr. Karr! Open your eyes.