Living in Shadows

There was a time, when I was little and naive, and I thought I grow up and do something great. But I realized it would never happen.

All my life, I have lived in people's shadows.

Everyone always got better grades than me, wrote better reports, drew better pictures.

Someone learned to play the piano better than I could, and someone managed to climb trees better than I could. Someones took the niches I could have filled, pushing me out to sit in their shadows and cry.

Because no matter how tall I grow or how much I try, their shadows are always larger.

I keep telling myself I should just stop trying. But for some reason, I still keep trying, hoping that someday, somehow, I will be better than they are and finally step out into the light.