For both of them, it is a continuous hellish life they are living.
For some of us, isn't it so?
You strive to be applauded and acclaimed by the world;
You struggle to do what everyone wants you to do and to be what they want you to be;
Yet, you are not happy,
for that is not the real you but a strained soul.
To be successful, you are forced to be ignorance to some sufferings that you were not used to bear the sight.
To achieve your goal, you are to face certain sacrifice that you've never dreamed of.
To reach the status where you were not at all familiar with, you have to forget some of the past that has been haunting you whenever you are awake or asleep.
It was what you have chosen -- the continuous suffering.