Some of us just continue tilting at windmills.
"Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."
mmm... kinda lost with that one... but it's interesting... lol :-)
Don Quixote, i.e. wasting your life in a deluded attempt to perpetuate the outdated concept of chivalry in a world that no longer believes in it.