To ask whether you could give up your foremost passion?

[AuldJosey]

In order to maintain your health?

Physical analogy would be no more sky dives as you've already broken 4 limbs.

Think having to not experience anything strong in the emotion department in order to keep you stable. You know that when you deny yourself this, you are better, but the expense to you is huge........

Lol, Names, you are amusing, I'll give you that.

It depends on the context. If it was something that was going to kill me and I need to be there for my children then I would. If I didn't have any children and no one else to consider then fuck it, something has to kill me.

I would do it for a period of time and see what happens. I would hope that I might find something else to take its place. If after 3 months I felt life was too grey I would reconsider.
I would find it too hard I think to know I was giving up for ever. I wouldn't be string enough for that I don't think.