To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Set out the case for either one on paper and it looks poor: risk, loss, effort with no guarantee at the end. Yet something in you keeps choosing both anyway, and that is not a failure of thinking. Some goods are not reachable by argument, and the part of you that wants them is not confused.

When you catch yourself building a case against something you plainly want, notice whether the case is really about danger or only about discomfort. Let the wanting have a vote. Then take the smaller version of the step rather than waiting to be convinced.