Digging For Gold

How close are you or were you to gold? Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you had hung in there when pursuing one thing or another?  Could that job have worked out, the education you gave up, the relationship you ended, or would that business had made it if you had just hung in there? There are countless documented stories that describe people who faced seemingly overwhelming circumstances yet success was obtained beyond the point where a person wanted to quit but didn't. Where is your gold?