When you're roaming down that old dirt road of ambition, remember all that ambition you're leaving there in the dirt. While that road carries you down another hill towards some hiatus, that space where you'll think you feel safe with what you've got left inside of you.
And as you pass the different paths you could've taken, rather than turning off this old dirt road you've ambitiously wandered, think of all the times you'd just had that one decision to make. How, now, as you walk on past yet another, all those paths you eyed and left behind you.
After you've thought about the time of this exploration of ambition that you've nearly given all but up on, keeping that goal in mind, just think about the chances you really have taken on your own happiness, your own levity of your ambition, and those hoarse decisions you made to get outside yourself.