Barriers, Boulders and Breaking Down

Sometimes the things in the distance are what we want the most in life. There are often barriers and walls blocking the passageway, stopping the people who aren't suppose to get what's in the distance. The barriers function as an end of the road for some, but for others who encounter the barrier, they realize those walls are built to break them down. It's about perspective. Seeing that wall, being discouraged, turning your back and slowly walking way is an option. Or the other option is to tare it down. Either choice can do you no harm. There will always be a path to go down to get the object in the distance, it just depends which path you're willing to take. At times I like to think that I've reached the distance, not by breaking down the barriers, but by taking little steps. And looking back, I don't really know how it all came to be. It just happened. There was no intention, no goal, no incentive, no reward, no purpose.. it just was what it was. Sometimes I like to think it broke the odds of everything I believed in, because for once it defied a principle and theory in my life. Although I never really know about how it came to be, I was happy, content, satisfied and filled with joy. But unfortunately, sometimes holding on to what was in distance can slip through your fingers and disappear. It's as if a magician is tingling with your emotions and perception, making you believe it's just an illusion of an awful imagination. And there you are wishing the magician was done with his act so that what he took away would come back since every act is suppose to have a happy ending - like how every story is suppose to end like a fairytale. That's just wishful thinking though. Things like that never really happen in life, maybe for the lucky few, but otherwise you can only beat the odds so much. The thing that was in the distance is there yet again. But this time it's quite different. There's barriers and walls, and I find myself in front of the biggest boulder thinking do I even have the strength to move it this time? I think, turn around and slowly walk away. There'll be another path to follow, not exactly leading to what was in the distance before, but hopefully something that's at least half as great as what was there. No happy ending. No fairytale. Just a barrier and a path in the opposite direction. What was in distance still is, but before I turned around I realized even though I didn't have my happy ending, it was still happy.