Don't gain the world and Lose your soul

When that line hit me, it hit me real bad. To a level that even as I write this a week later, my heart breaks as I understand it further. In life you often push yourself to the limit and ace for the best, but in the end, you ask, "why do you do it?", can you truly answer? or do you have a prefixed line that you babble out? It's taking a little off my soul and emerges hard to breathe at times.

Imagine bringing the rice to the table and asked to bring more.