A wise man once said you can have anything in life...

If you sacrifice everything else for it.

What he meant is nothing comes without a price.

So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose.

Too often, going after what feels good, means letting go of what is right.

And letting someone in, means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building.

Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming.

When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss.

When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice turns out to be more than we can bear.

We all go through life like "bulls in a china shop" - 

a chip here, a crack there,

doing damage to ourselves,...  to other people.

The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we’ve done, or that’s been done to us.

Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise.

Sometimes we think we can fix the damage.

And sometimes the damage is something we can’t see.

I can feel damage all around me.