I wish I had known then what I know now. I wish someone had told me. Maybe they did and I just wasn't ready to listen. Still, I wish I had felt the warning in my bones that said, "this world will try to keep you hustling. It will try to fold you up into an impossible shape. If you let it, it will ruin you."

Society, industry, people, the world. Whatever you call it, it will always want more than you have to give. There is a hunger out there that you were never meant to feed. If you try to satisfy it, one day you will too little left of yourself to fit the important things like hope.