Saturday, January 3, 2015
Let me see you fly
This is a post that's actually a month overdue (I should actually back date it to 2014, but I guess I have some stuff to say for the new year as well that doesn't require a post of its own).
So, of
course I was talking to people again (you know who you are! And you won't read this) and one of them said something that really just... made sense, I guess. "Some people have been given a ladder to climb."
And it
is true, some people have been given ladders to climb. Some ladders were made sturdier than others, some ladders reach higher than others. Most of all, they go to different places. And honestly? It's terribly unfair. Some of us have passions that might not seem as recognised, or wanted, or needed. Certainly it is the case that effort determines how fast and how far you climb, and talent is what gets others to bestow that ladder upon you, but in the end some people need to fight harder for what they want.
What makes things particularly angering is the fact that society in general (sometimes, including the people who have been given ladders) don't see that some people find this system dissatisfying. Furthermore, they request that everyone is appreciative of the system. I've had my fair shares of "Look at the schools you've come from, you've been given so many opportunities you didn't want to take," and et cetera. Certainly, I've been through a system, and perhaps, I will admit, been given various chances that others may not have had.
It doesn't mean I haven't had to fight tooth and nail for the chance to those opportunities. It doesn't give anyone else the right to take away the tools for me to build my own ladder where I want it to go. It is actually very difficult to admit rage. I am not able to find a good enough word (in English, that is) that may adequately express my feelings about this, and generally, the way the world works.
On a very different note, it is 2015. Finally.
Maybe not thankfully, though.
Posted at 6:51 PM
