Is this the end of the line…is it time?
They say it doesn’t have to be this way…
Here lies a moment to pause, to think and reflect as I try to work out whether it is a full stop or semi-colon moment – is this the end of the line…is it time? I’m not like everyone else, see. I don’t have the confidence to be the success I dreamed of in my infancy…I don’t even have the motivation to try anymore. I have lost my fight, and certainly don’t have the right to claim any position or status here.
Is this the end of the line…is it time?
They say it doesn’t have to be this way…
It doesn’t have to be this way…but how can it all be okay? I feel overwhelmed and ashamed of all that has gone before. I’m not like everyone else, see. I don’t have the strength to fight…I’d much rather take flight. Running though, as I have learned, fails to reach resolve – everything seems to find a way of catching up in the end. Those other semi-colon moments wreak regret, see…
Is this the end of the line…is it time?
They say it doesn’t have to be this way…
Is it time to change, to become more long-range? To look beyond, rather than remain trapped within…crushed and submerged by all that is negative in me. I want to change, to move outside of myself, but it’s so hard…it takes such courage, and impossible to do alone. I’m not like everyone else, see. I’m not strong enough to be me amidst a sea of thee…capable, confident and in control.
Is this the end of the line…is it time?
They say it doesn’t have to be this way…
I’m not like everyone else…who is this everyone else? These people who have it all sorted, who fall into the life they desired and dreamed of? The perfect people with perfect parents, perfect places and perfect prospects…I thought they were everywhere but as I tentatively reach out from this hole, this pit of despair, there are a few more who understand; they get it…
Is this the end of the line…is it time?
They say it doesn’t have to be this way…
It doesn’t have to be this way…
It’s a semi-colon, not a full stop
Tea and Theology 
I so resonate with your words, “I’m not like everyone else, see. I don’t have the confidence to be the success I dreamed of in my infancy…I don’t even have the motivation to try anymore. I have lost my fight, and certainly don’t have the right to claim any position or status here.” But also very surprised to read them in regard to you. Because you come across as the epitome of confidence and assertiveness. Which just goes to show that none of us know what is truly going on inside someone else
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I think that’s such an important point: things aren’t always as they seem! Equally though, it’s a journey, and there are often lots of bumps along the way…I’m not sure these words speak into where I am now, but they certainly speak into various extended points along the way. One things for sure though, I rarely ‘feel’ confident, but I’ve learned how to role-play it….
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