The Struggle of Trying to Be

It is never easy when you attempt to be better. It does not matter what the idea of better represents for you- the presence of obstacles will be there. We seem much more comfortable with complacency and the idea that to strive is worthless. This is all while others try to lock us into who we might have been or constantly remind us of mistakes that we might have made. Trying to escape and capture a fleeting yet beautiful picture of what might be is the plight of us all. However, we cannot allow the negativity and cynicism of society or others to block us from the dreams that rest in our hearts. No, we must struggle to be, because whenever that struggle ends, the freedom that we dream of becomes simply a prison of what might have been.