Everyone To Their Own
FleetusMcGee posted in The F*-Word
By: Kayla
Every person is born into their own battle, their own conflict between good and bad, cool and uncool, or just the everlasting external battles of the world. Everyone has a different story; in a way, each one of us is a story. We start out as screaming infants, greedy and self-absorbed. By instinct, all we do is want. It is how we survive, our only conflict being the next time we’re fed, who is going to take care of us. We do not fight for ourselves.As we grow older, each one of us develops a more personal battle, an internal struggle. For some people, the silent battle is a war of mind versus body. The mind is fighting to be beautiful, to look socially acceptable, the body is just there, living and breathing, and perhaps not as perfect as the mind thinks it ought to be.
Regret is another fight that people often deal with in their everyday lives. They are fighting to forget, to let it go, to move on with life. But when you truly regret something, the sword it spars with is as sharp as the memory. Other emotions close to regret, things like sadness and hate, do this too, and when anyone lets it get the best of them, they can surrender their happiness and themselves to a problem that may only be temporary. For some, the battle is eternal.
The battle can be won. We can defeat ourselves in a way, or rather all of our self-doubt and internal conflict. It’s amazing to be comfortable in your own skin, and live as one person, not the protagonist and antagonist sharing one mind, and no longer a mind versus body. With defeat of the inner sadness, perhaps we can be completely content with ourselves, perhaps we will smile.
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