How sad it is!

"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.....If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!" ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray.

We all will give up everything, give up everything for pretty much nothing in return. But why? Why and when did the human species become so foolish? Animals become foolish but that is at their utmost desperate point of survival. When did TVs, jewels, love become something for our utmost survival?

What would I give up? What have I given up? Have I given up enough? This year I moved, to cheapen my bills, to allow myself to go back to school however I am no better off then I was when before I left. Yes, do I have cheaper housing expenses but I am still no better off somehow.

So I ask myself, have I not given up enough? Have I not sacrificed enough? Am I really willing to give up everything at one point and time in my life to gain more for the future?

When does one give up everything?