Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream . The first mouse quickly gave up and drowend. The second mouse wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.
He could explains life, but not his own. He wanted to save lives of others, but he failed and even worse, with cost of another's and his own. He proved the truth like this: it's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it" that you want.