You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhaps can’t. . C.s. Lewis
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The quote above is an interesting one. It is often used to express disappointment with someone who has asked for something repeatedly, but it is also used in a positive way to express the idea that if you are truly sincere about something, you will get what you want. Saying, "You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears" shows that you will not be able to achieve your goal if you are not able to see things clearly. The idea that "you can't get the best out of it" means that it is not always possible to achieve your goal. If you want something, you need to be committed and willing to do whatever it takes.

Source: A Grief Observed

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