I think life is about sacrifices. Some are bigger than others, some more monumental, some with greater consequences. Some are easier to make than others. But each day that unfolds carries with it a promise of more sacrifices.
We sacrifice money, time, love, possessions, blood, sweat, tears, ourselves -- in different doses to different people.
We take time away from one person to give to another. We sacrifice ethics, morals, values to get farther in life. We burn bridges just in the nick of time to cling to what's left of them to get to the other side.
We sacrifice health to push ourselves to live longer, more caffienated, Rolodexed lives. We sacrifice marriages in the pursuit of a moment of tantalizing pleasure.
We sacrifice the flat screen TVs and the new sports car for meals for the family and a minivan.
We sacrifice in the form of compromise to please another.
Life is a precarious balance of healthy sacrifices and the ones that slice into who we are and bleed us dry.
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