"He worked really hard..."

It was a beautiful, sunny day in the middle of spring.  The birds were singing, new leaves were on the trees and the air smelled crisp.  Life was blooming everywhere, yet the man sitting in front of me didn't notice it at all.

His back was to the window.

The pressure he was feeling was pervasive, his face betraying his cool exterior.

"Look," he said to me sternly.  "I've got customers, my team leaders and my family to uphold.  I have to consider about the financial position of the company, its strategic growth, and I'm expected to maintain a certain status.  It's just the high cost of success."

"So when you're dead we should write ‘ He worked really hard and got a lot done – too bad he never knew his kids' on your tombstone?"   It was one of those sort of jokes – the kind that hits you between the eyes with the truth, and we both knew it.

The room was silent.   I could hear the clock ticking. 

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. 

Neither one of us said a word.

Finally, he took a deep breath, looked me in the eye, leaned back slowly in his chair and smiled.   His face softened and his shoulders relaxed as he began to realize, possibly for the first time since he started the company, just how much it had taken over his life.

"Thank you" he said simply.

"You're welcome" I replied.

"What's next?" 

"We'll help you." 

"Then let's get started."

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