That's an overstatement.
A big overstatement.
You're not close to second best, or third, or fourth.
In all reality, you're not even in the top ten or even twenty.
There's somebody better than you.
Always.
It doesn't matter how hard or how tightly you cling to a dream,
it really doesn't matter at all.
At the end of the day.
you're still nobodies last thought at night or first thought in the morning.
You're used to that.
So it goes.