When you are young, you encounter dreams.

From your parents, your friends, your loves, your allies.

No matter where the inspiration comes from, eventually dreams form in you.

You hunger for your goals.

You seek to acheive destiny, forge fate, master life.

You set out to do something.

And for many, hard work and experience eventually lets them realize their dreams.

But there are others.

You would say failures and mistakes demand you try again.

Many do, and many succeed.

But there are others.

They learn a harder truth as the continue to flail bare fisted at a brick wall.

For some the walls break, with enough blows and perseverence.

But there are others, that no matter how hard they pound, only break themselves.

Then they learn a deeper truth.

The destiny, the dream they seek will never be theirs.

They realize futility. They realize uselessness.

They realize it is pointless to attack something that will never go down.

They shift focus. There is no point to wasting any more time.

They have learned enough.

Instead of learning how strong they are, they learn their weakness.

Some dwell on it, and never climb out of the pit of despair.

When your dreams lie in shards around you, when you realize true hopelessness..

It is easy to blame yourself.

But what is not meant to be never will be.

When you are young, you are told you can do anything, be anyone.

But you can only be yourself.

The world you can change is not around you.

It is within yourself.

You are responsible for your decisions.

You cannot be blamed if they were influenced by environment.

All are. Some are slaves to the desires of others, the bonds forged unbreakable.

Then there are others, who reframe their very existence.

And then, the pieces, the ruins of their dreams no longer bothers them.

They reforge them into something new.

Something they did not envision.

People say you should never give up. Not ever they scream and scream.

But when you do the same thing with the same results - it is insanity.

And then, regardless of anyone, anything, you must change.

Or you will never be yours.

You will never be free.

This does not go for the achievers, the go getters, the relentless.

But there are others. And it is time you stopped being ashamed of choosing a different path.

It makes you no less weak. You still learn from your mistakes, your failures.

Even if you learn you can never succeed at your original dream.

You need be no slave, to that, to anyone.

You must learn, to see a new path.

There is no shame in that choice.

It is not lesser than others who make it the first time, or the 100th.

There are others, who do not make it.

Ever.

If you are one of them, do not mourn.

You have the power to change, to break the walls that you alone can break.

No one can show you.

It is your life, soul, mind, and body.

You choose where it goes and what it can do.

But sometimes, the demands you make of it are too grandiose.

I have accepted what I cannot do as much as what I can.

You never get where you think you are going to go.

And if you do, it is not exactly as you pictured.

You can't see the future, only dream of it.

In a way, all of us get dissappointed.

Maybe the wall will break the thousandth time.

Or maybe you are just wasting your life.

It is yours, I cannot choose for you.

I am enough to deal with.

In this pathetic, moronic age of too big to fail..

I am not afraid of failing.

Sometimes, it is the only option.