after all

xvi.

are you what you want to be?
is your life the way you pictured it?
as a six year old
looking up to adults, saying,
"i want to do that,
i want to be that
when i grow up."

if not then, it's okay.
some things take time
and some others
aren't meant to be.
setting standards is great
but exhausting ourselves
to reach all of them
is saddening, and rounds the
corners of self-inflicted misery.