We are who we are

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon

Isn’t it obvious

that we are everything

and nothing at all?

that who we are today

isn’t who we will be tomorrow

that we’re constantly changing

and evolving

to becoming more like the selves

we want to die as.

t.l.

This quote really hits me hard. As I have accepted that I am not who I wanted to be a few years ago. I have accepted my flaws and my strength, sometimes they’re the same thing.

I know life as a writer or an artist will be a lonely road that I need to walk alone. Every time there’s a chance to be what my parents wanted me to be, I hesitate. But it won’t last. Only now that I choose to be who I am, I might be unhappy at times. But I know it’s what I really wanted.