gear

working for "the common good" is good, very good, until the day the whole can no longer remember you as an individual part, and not just a replaceable gear in the engine. a gear have no satisfaction. no ambition. no desire. but you, as an individual part of the "common good"'s engine, you have desires. you have needs to be satisfied. you have ambitions. and once they are forgotten, you as a gear start failing. it's inevitable.