It can suck you dry, I tell you.

That's what the lure of career does. It turns people into stone and simple goals into great, impossible feats. Emotions take the back seat and there's never room for tears. Facing it requires mastery of keeping one's face still amid a mass of despair.

It demands that people cease being content, hence, strive for something farther than they had been equipped and prepared to reach. Inebriating. Blinds you of the things you should appreciate and be thankful for, encouraging to cultivate greed and selfishness. To believe that the so-called sacrifice is heroic enough to feed your hunger for achievement, for money, and, ultimately, for that thing you almost always mistakenly refer to as self-worth.

And you will be rich in the end. And you will get everything you thought you wanted and dreamed.

But you will still feel discontented, I assure you. Because with the greatness reached comes the want for more daring and extreme heights. So the cycle begins once again.

Choose life. Or choose living.

There are only two options. There is never an in-between.