Some lessons you have to learn twice, or three times, or four, or five

I've learned this lesson MANY times, and yet I continue to sell myself short when it comes to giving more than I'm getting back... STILL.  After everything I've gone through, I let my imagination run the show and don't pay enough attention to reality.  

Damn it, Athena. 

I deserve to feel disappointed... I won't learn any other way.