there's always a contrast between who we are and who we want to be

we chase it like it's a measure of our improvement, a definition of who we are and the things we hold dear

maybe it is, and maybe it isn't

we feel completely lost when we slip and do the things that make us the person we don't want to be

when we let that person bully us

when we don't speak out against the things we don't agree with

when we chicken out of the things we promised to run towards

we struggle to break free of the fear, the heartache and everything that limits our voice

all these things don't mean we're any less

it might feel like you're failing...