Most of the time's, you're stuck between knowing something is impossible and actually trying to make it work. You may be stubborn or you may just not have come across that point in time when your mind agrees with your body's opinion of what should happen. Some things take a long time to die, when really they should have died a long time ago. So you keep watering a dead plant, hoping that one day, there will be new growth, a resurrection of some sort
What is difficult is the gap that exists between what you know to be true and what you're willing to accept as truth. That gap may take months to bridge if you continue to hold on to your original beliefs. Many people do that, they hold on to a circumstance for years, simply because they believe that if they quit, then they will have admitted something they were not ready to admit.
But after a certain period of time, the objective will shift from attempting to make the situation work, to proving that you tried so hard. Then when it finally does come to an end, you can comfortably say you did everything you could have done.
Focus on that instance for a moment. How tiring is it to put all that effort into something that you already know the answer to? But still, for many people, it is no one else's place to tell them when it is time to stop trying, even though it appears to be their own personal choice. People will normally not stop trying until trying becomes more painful for them than ending it. That is generally how it happens.
But do keep hope alive, it's kind of the only thing you can hang on to while you go through hard times.
