We are never really happy with the life we are given.

We make our choices, until some destroy us.

We are taught to be hopeful and look to the stars, but what happens when we never take our eyes off the telescope and look in the mirror?

How much do we give up for someone else vision?

It is not a sin to dream, but a sin to not act on them. 

My project, Shadows of Self, is a series about looking at the doubts in our lives and how we cope with them.  

I have always been into philosophy and psychology, where I have been exploring existentialism, conformity, and choice theory.  These ideas began to create doubts in my mind about how I was living my life.  These doubts became dread, dread to depression, depression to awakening.  

When I was unhappy with how my life was going a couple of years ago, a major shift occurred where I was presented with an opportunity to pursue something else.  I began to do things I loved and stop doing the things that were expected of me.

It has taken me a decade to realize that my life is my own and that I need to live it how I want to; take control by working harder for something I want, not something I need to be successful in the eyes of others; and stop hiding my love because of a groups idea of how a gender should behave.

Cheers.