What Came Out...

How do you remain steadfast in who you are
When the world is crashing in?
How do you keep your feet firmly planted
When everyone tries to push you down?

How does one hold true to their convictions, their desires, their innermost being
When people have been telling you that you need to be a 'somebody'?
How do you break outside the mold
When you thought the mold was what you wanted?

How do you become the thing that your feminist self has hated
Only to realize that the desires of your life are different
Than you once thought.
More
Than you ever dreamed.
Odd
And even crazy.

What if the thing you never wanted to become
Is now the thing you wish for the most
And it is a financial impossibility?

What does it mean
To not be who everyone tells you to be
And to instead

Be who you are?