dreams

the essential definition of a man, but at the same time, they torment and dance just beyond his reach. Never being able to achieve them makes him who he is, but also destroys who he is not. When you think about who you are, you don't think about who you are NOT. The aspects of yourself that you've changed to be better are no longer the same that they used to be. So which one of you has the right to live? the original or what you perceive to be a better person. There are definitely better attributes, better people, better chances, but can you change yourself to become that? I think you can. The problem is inherent in the difficulty of changing. When something is hard, it forces us to consider the possibility that nature has taken the easiest course, and has made the best possible out of the available materials. So are we born at the peak of our excellence? not as a child, but as a natural human. So is it against nature to "better" yourself, to try to be an upstanding citizen, to help people, to go against your nature to fit in, or to not fit in, either one. Maybe it is wrong to be "better" than yourself, and instead we should simply sink into the mediocrity that threatens all of us constantly, because it is the best that we can be or do.