The story you shared had a profound impact on me.
The professor's internal struggle resonated deeply because it reflects a common experience in our own lives.
Making the choice between personal happiness and professional success is a challenging task.
Indeed, my friend @alexlight. That struggle is also a determining factor for me. That is why I believe that Homer's Iliad continues to be read, because it raises as an underlying but definitive theme the inner struggle that Shakespeare later proposes to us in his famous dilemma: to be or not to be.