When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.