Herman Melvile once said " it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation", yeap, this statement is one of the hardest  truth there is to swallow, it is sweet to lips yet bitter to the belly. however its consumption is paramount to the nutrition of our growth. Because we live in  a world which has embraced replication, imitation and wanna be's.

We have become so content with embracing fakeness and ingenuity by virtue of wanting to fit in. Not being authentic has become a social norm such that people would choose to fail in pursuing who they are not than to fail while trying to discover their truest potential.  The fear of being unique by virtue of seeking originality has caused us to adapt into living in the realm of our alter egos while trying as best as we can to replica them .

The question at hand today is, is it all worth it ? What's better, what would you rather trial and error in ?  Is it in failing and learning from your mistakes while tying to pursue something you love and were born  to do, or is it in pursuing something which the society and generation 2.0 has deemed cool.

We have become so comfortable in living in the confines of the agenda set by the media such that what we consume through the streams of this river no longer refresh us but intoxicate us. The media which was 'made'  to build and empower us  now (at times ) causes us to self destruct. It may be possible that the point I am trying to drive across has been fashioned to be cliche' and thus almost irrelevant. 

However if we were  to instill the pattern and culture of being true to self  and what self is capable of, only then  perhaps we could even start  triumphing over  unsettled feelings  boiling within us,  invoked by continual attempts  and failure while pursuing who we are  not . Perhaps the peace we are desperately seeking  is found in  us accepting ourselves, potential, strengths and using exactly that to put one foot forward, easily and steadily, ignoring every external pressure. As the new week fast approaches, approach the new day, with a clear mind, zeal and the confidence to be apologetically who you are without fear or failure.