...oh. I must not have been clear enough.

Listen, those like us...don't have an option between a career or being human, as you phrased it. We have to be more than human, to become the very ideal of what a 'hero' should be. Many of us sacrifice our desires and even our lives so that others can survive and live happily. Living as a normal human would was always impossible for individuals dedicated to that existence.

So when I say I have never lived for myself, I mean that my entire waking existence has been dedicated to others because that is what I was meant to be.