When your heart goes one way and your head goes the other, what are you to do? Trapped within the mindless drudgeries of our so-called life, we drift with the current, flailing helplessly against the unknown force that steers our fate. As much as we try to fight the rush of destiny, our strength will wane and we will lose. So why fight? Why waste precious energy? Because we are human. Our insatiable hunger to become that lone rose among the thorns overpowers any last trace of common sense we have left to summon; to be the shiniest star against the velvet black, without knowing its unruly radiance represents its numbered days, a supernova on the verge of explosion.
I am one of those stars. I am the foolish creature that struggles against the bonds of fate, eager for the tiniest loophole to break through and scream the word of my existence. I am nothing without this endless struggle. I live solely to distinguish myself from the rest of the world; whether I succeed or not is another matter entirely. I have to know that I exist, that my presence is seen and heard, not just felt. I have led a life of mystery - which is not the same as leading a mysterious life -, shrouded by a frustrating epicentre of timidity and gawky humour. I have yet to outgrow the former - a hazardous characteristic for a media student, but I’m trying. It is hard to break out of a shell that one has lived since childhood. More importantly, it takes courage and not strength to do it. Do you have it? Or maybe the question should be, do you want to do it? Do you want to be a supernova?
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy