Is there a need to feel proud?
If so, you are still one of the crowd.
Wait for the day hardship arrives.
Destruction has one virtue —
it clears all doubt.
When difficulty finds you, face it.
However heavy — do not look away.
Learn. Experience. Write your theses.
The world may study them one day,
but the world is equally capable of forgetting them.
Recognition is a fragile reward.
Categories are a fragile prison.
People are here to fix your category —
and that is all the strategy.
The one who feels bound
will call the echo his voice,
the label his choice,
the fence his horizon.
The category that bears your name
was never yours to build.
Use your own wisdom —
and you will find
that what you called freedom
was only a well-decorated cage.
Do, to be written.
Write, to be spoken.
Or leap —
and discover
the world had named you
long before you arrived.
© Amit Choudhary, 2000 (Post 23P)