Aside

I would like to dispel some common myths

That all too often slip from our tongues

When the common is the last thing

Needed

What doesn't kill me, doesn't always make me stronger

And even if the experience has some value

Or that value is great, well

I'd rather learn to shoulder the world

Under a weight worth carrying

You need to learn the difference

Between dreams and reality

Well, I disagree, I think for me

I'd rather spend my focus on getting the two to meet

I'd rather suffer the blisters on my feet

Than cease walking

I'd rather know what the sunrise looks like

When you've lived a lifetime since the sunset

And I realize it might not be

Conducive to the box you're trying to package me in

To the structure you so kindly try

To constrain me with

But I'd rather know what it means to be free

And that's not something you can fit

Into a thousand lifetimes, if you haven't learned yet

How to fit it in a moment.