if you gaze long into the abyss...

.... the abyss gazes back into you. it's true. and the worst is, once the abyss gazes back into us, we cannot elude it no more. we might stand on its edge for a while, trying not to fall out of balance, but it's a useless effort. sooner or later the vertigo rushes into our mind, and balance becomes impossible: the only option is to fall, to be swallowed by the darkness below.