A Theory of General Well-Being

You are not just who you are in the present, you are also holding the potential of who you can become. You are a being who is constantly becoming, the greatest gift you have in the present is the ability to  choose  who you want to be next. Sacrifices are, therefore, inevitable if you want to achieve competency in something. 

The Latin aphorism,  ars longa, vita brevis , describes exactly this: skilfulness takes time and life is short. In order to become anything, you must eliminate everything else — life is about choosing your sacrifices, you don’t get to not make any, but you get to choose which ones.