refusing to settle

It's human nature to refuse to settle for second-best, to harbor that determination to get what we've set our sights on and try our best not to just give up and pass it off as a lost cause. But if all we end up doing is banging our heads against the same wall and reopening old wounds, why do we do it? We've had plenty of opportunities to get ourselves out of this predicament, but instead we choose to stay in it and just.. wait. And even when we're presented with other options that may or may not be better than what we essentially want, we stubbornly turn away from them and continue to wait. Is it a case of I Want What I Can't Have, or is it really that worth it? Or is it faith -- faith that if we work hard enough for it, and believe for once that the tide really could turn and that this could be a turning point in our lives, it will eventually come to us and everything will be all right?