The Burden

Some people are simply born smarter than others. There is no denying it. There is no such thing as true equality in this world.

This is our burden. We are to aim higher because we can, merely because we can. It does not matter what we want. What matters is what society wants.

And society wants us to aim for better things. Society fills us with hope, with confidence, with pride. But now everyone has hope, has confidence, has pride, and competition with each other has thrown us all into a pool of misery. Society believes that it has helped us. Society, in fact, has wronged us.

How can society teach us to aim higher, when it cannot guarantee paths to our goals? How can society betray us, by allowing a person of lower ambition to stand equally by our sides? How can society mock us, by casting us into mediocrity, by disregarding our hard work, by trampling sacrilegiously upon the paths we shed blood and tears to forge, paths they instructed us to make!

Where is our reward, our redemption, our happiness?

What have they done?

How could they...