Hard and Soft

Ideals, reality, hope, and disappointment.

These are difficult things to balance. I really admire those who can do it well. They seem to be comfortable with the way the world really is, accept it for the sadness that it contains. But at the same time, they are somehow free to hope for the best of things that occur here. For themselves, they are able to uphold their ideals of who they want to be, and who they challenge their loved ones to be. And they are not too hardened to experience disappointment when their ideals aren’t met because they realize it is part of life as well. At the same time, they are never too disappointed to leave their ideals behind. It’s a delicate combination of warm and cold, hard and soft that make up these individuals.

I on the other hand go through the days feeling too hard, too soft, too warm, too cold – never quite just right.