hit me hard

If someone else can influence your values for their own purposes, you can end up slaving your life away for something that has nothing to do with your own real interests. I think this is what happened to my friends, and what is happening to many of you.

there is no answer to the problem of life–the solution is the disappearance of the problem.

"Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for."  – Jan Houtema

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — Carl Jung