Pursue what is meaningful not what is Expedient. 

  -- If a tree would reach the heavens, then its roots need to go correspondingly deep. 

Even under conditions of extreme privations there are things more important than food. Bread is of little use to a man who has betrayed his own souls, even if he may be starving! -- Meaning is the Way, the Path of life more abundant, the place you live when you are guided by Love and speaking the Truth and when nothing you want or could possibly want takes any precedence over precisely that. — Jordan B. Peterson: 12 Rules for Life.