To give up

In this society, we have a choice to become consumed by desire and become slaves to the drive of obsession, and we also have a choice to envelop our consciousness in a shroud of self-satisfaction and complacency. For many, the choice between the two is a choice between sanity and insanity, between joy and misery, between purpose and purposelessness.

But there may still come some momentous day where, regardless of what our choice was, we will be forced to give up—to give up our dreams and our passions, just as we might give up our luxuries and our comforts.

When we’re beckoned to do something far more exigent and pressing than anything we’ve ever done in our lives, will we heed to our calling?

Will we merely mourn the death of the status quo?

Or will we do something to make things better?