Have you ever looked into the mirror and just stared at a version of your self that’s barely recognizable? Perhaps your hair is styled in a slightly different way, or maybe a wrinkle has manifested right above  your eyebrow, maybe worse than that is the reflection of a crushed spirit or dreams so long gone that you don’t even dare to dream of anymore. So much time has passed since you first graduated college or started that new job, or maybe got married and had a few kids…maybe you even divorced once or twice… and somewhere in that you lost who you were–you lost the part of you that used to dream of possibilities, endless possibilities.

And you wonder what you could have done in life to make you so insignificant. Most of us sit at our jobs from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and wind up answering our blackberry’s from 6:00 to midnight. We foolishly wonder where the time goes, secretly knowing that we are the reason it’s wasted.

Are we a generation that’s more comfortable discussing contracts over email than we are making small talk over dinner?

At what cost do we climb this corporate ladder and what do we really gain in the end?

And if we’re climbing at such an excellerated  rate, how can we be sure we’re not just running from something we’re afraid of or uncomfortable with?

When did our jobs become more important than the people in our lives? At what point do we say enough is enough, and starting working to live instead of living to work?