Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job. '
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.