It goes on

At this point in my life, I'm realizing that sometimes we're faced with incredible challenges and put in difficult situations to learn some of the basic facts about life.

For instance, one thing is, that not everything we aspire for we can attain and no, it doesn't matter how hard you work or how much time and effort you put into something for it to happen. Sometimes it just doesn't happen and there's simply nothing you can do about it. It's beyond you. All you can do is accept this fact and move on with your life. It tests your patience, discourages you, makes you lose faith and consider giving up several times but at the end of the day it teaches the lesson and in the hardest of ways. So, this is nothing but a shout out to all those beaten down people, to all those who have done their best and haven't been rewarded properly, maybe only just yet. I stand with you.

I'm not saying that you will be rewarded for all your efforts or that there is light at the end of the tunnel or any of that shit. I don't know that for myself. We could spend our whole lives in this seemingly endless struggles; doomed for a lifetime of misery just because we dared to reach out and aim higher than what we're allowed to, as it seems. For all I know, we might as well stop;

Stop wanting more that we have. Stop reaching out attempting to feed our hungry souls that constantly yearn for better. There's comfort in mediocrity and maybe, just maybe, that's what we are: mediocre individuals who are trying to get out of their assigned role and become something they're not and that's why we're punished for it. What do I know?

What I do know is this, here's the silver lining: 

Do whatever you want to do in life but try to do it with the same intensity.
Do it with passion and do it with a smile on your face.
Be honest.
Be decent.
Be straightforward.
Ask for what you want with pride and
Never devalue your self-worth.

Whatever is meant to happen will happen no matter what you or anyone else does. After all, it goes on.