Deflated balloons
Sometimes I bite off more than I can chew for hope that I can prove to the world and to myself that I've made it. That I can do it. And then it flops and it leaves me feeling like a deflated balloon. Because that's basically what it is. Filling myself up with air only for it to pop because I can fool myself but can't fool others and if I can't do something, it turns out it's very apparent. Sometimes it really feels like the whole world knows something I don't. Like everyone else is somehow able to do it and I fail again and again. And when I talk to others about that feeling they say they have it too. So why do we all feel alone in our incapabilities? If everyone has them? Because I think we all try to fill up our balloons. To prove to ourselves and the world that we won't pop. That we can do it. Because there are expectations And we tell ourselves that if we fall short we're failures. And most of the time, we do fall short. So most of us are wa...