The Cost of Taking Lives

A battlefield isn’t something you should get excited about.

Too much new blood looks at war like it’s some rite of passage, but when you start taking lives, it’s easy to think you are gaining something. You aren’t.

Every life you take takes a piece of you, and hollows you out until you’re left empty.

Listen, kid, if you’re lucky, you will never have to kill. And if you do, just make sure you’re doing it for the right reasons.