Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.