In this new year I have new goals to achieve. It has taken me years to realize not to compete too much with other people but instead to find happiness in just being myself even if someone next to me is seemingly achieving more. If I see someone this year slightly ahead of me in my photography goals then I should learn from them and not resent them for getting there first.
I was awake at 4am in Shanghai China (as far away from my home life as I could get), when I wrote this poem. It was a turning point in my life when I realized that I had made my own path in life and it didn't matter what my sisters, or friends were doing, my path was the right one for me.
Lost in transformation
Bored of my life, and doing the same thing
I left to find what Asia would bring
To lose myself in a world so far apart
To filter the true poems from my tearful heart
But as I stood in a crazy world alone
I suddenly realized I missed home
You can travel to places you want to see
To meet the people you dreamed to be
But the truth of it all and what you need to do
Is find some peace in just being you
In a city of people, on a crowded street
I wonder why there’s a beggar at my feet
They run around in a mad hurried dash
Pushing past the guy, who eats from the trash
In this chaotic and strange way of life
I find a hundred chopsticks but no f-ing knife
You can travel to places you want to see
To meet the people you dreamed to be
But the truth of it all and what you need to do
Is find some peace in just being you
Lost in translation is an excellent phrase
As I struggle to speak and am left in a daze
Now in a night so warm and painfully long
I realize this experience is making me strong
For I never was really me and never understood
How I’d ever feel happy doing different than others would
To travel to places was always the key
To meet the people I dreamed to be
But the truth is that, I learnt to see
I’m perfectly content just being me
You can cross oceans, soar in the cloudless air
Push to limits only others would dare
But to save your sanity and in part your health
Find a true happiness, in just being yourself
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