Purpose

Purpose

What brings me pleasure brings me pain

What feigns importance is merely an illusion designed to control

Make me conform

To the norm

When I am my own person, my own being with my own burning light

Yearning to shine as bright as the sun

Giving less importance to the arbitrary

Decisions that don't matter in the end

How to speak

How to dress

How to act

Second guess

Going over and over something in my head

What matters is only this:

Leaving the world a better place than the one you have found

Going with loving kindness

Compassion for all beings

Touching lives and letting your own be touched

Happiness is fleeting

Obscure and slippery

Not found in riches nor places

People nor material things

But in making peace with oneself

Accepting the things that cannot be changed

Accepting the challenge of changing what you can

Becoming the best version of yourself

Comfortable in your own skin

Ready to shine your rays of light

That come from you within

Onto all who shall cross your path