How Far Can You Reach?
- Sylphy
- May 19
- 2 min read
Updated: May 23
I ask myself, how far can I go? My talents, my skills, will they be able to carry me through obstacles? Will they be able to make me reach my full potential? Or so how it goes…
This is for the people who have a burning passion, but then later on extinguished by the sheer overwhelming void of the deep ocean, this is for you. Someone who was acing everything, surpassing every obstacle and easily facing challenges, and now someone who’s engulfed in a bird cage, unable to fly high and experience the fresh scented view of what you once sought to have. What was once so eagerly confident becomes someone who is uncertain of themselves. I am a dying flame who desperately seeks for oxygen in the void called space.
I, myself, am a wasted opportunity. I am gifted with a talent that I can overcome any hardcore difficulties that they will throw at me. But letting it shrivel to pieces? No, that wasn’t my initial approach. I wanted to shine, to be someone out of the ordinary. Being “ordinary” never stuck out to me, but that was also coincidentally how my life is now. Suddenly, not being excused from classes, not getting to meet new people outside of my classroom, not hearing my name, not being called to queue for an event was not what I expected to slowly disappear from my everyday life. Yet, it was something I had hoped for to happen.
But deep inside my heart is something that screams, If I ever do get an opportunity to redeem myself once again, I will not reach for the stars, but for the light that has been long guiding me, reminding me that I do in fact still have a chance to nourish and express my talents, my skills, and especially, myself. I want to shine, I want to experience nervousness before a competition once again, I want to be recognized by my talents again, I want to hear the cheers that support me. I never knew that in the blink of an eye, all of those would disappear, longing to be found again.
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