Hmm.

Poker seems to be a lot like real life.
You may live a perfect life for 40 years, pay your taxes, do community work, being a great dad/ mom etc. Just one mistake one day can leave you on the side of the road with your head beside you, watching the other part of your body bleed away.
One such mistakes may be dating a mob boss' daughter/ ex girlfriend. Or, not looking right-left-right before crossing through a relatively tranquil street, the precise day some maniac hijacked a bus and was doing 130 mph with it in said street.

In poker, one such a mistake may be pushing with QQ UTG while not far from the money, with just about 17xBB in your stack. Somebody, who happens to have you covered, may wake up with KK or AA and you are gone. That stack, which you have massaged so well, which so far has survived quite well, will die a pitiful, undeserved death.

As long as you are not fully desperate, just concentrate and don't give up your life in such mirages, which look good (like the mob-boss' daughter) but turn out to be fatal.

Wait for a better spot. Patience is rewarding in and of itself.

Sidenote: The last few days I've been concentrating more in managing my emotions than actual success. My BR is dead where it was a week ago (40 buyins) but my emotional stability has grown. No pumping of fists or hidden grins when I get the nuts. No grimacing when I suffer a bad beat.
When I play poker now, my face never changes its state, despite the fact that I'm sitting behind a pc (without being able to see my actual opponents).
I consider this progress.