Catch 22's Gift or Curse

Good morning, the world is a catch twenty-two. You cannot live life with an open mind or heart without being taken advantage of. Being a good person is a curse and a gift but then again what isn’t. Seeing life from a different side is a gift but the cruelty of the world turns it into a curse. We try to break cycles but history still repeats. We try to honor the stigmas we have but the stereotypes are still beaten. Being the real you can be a hard pill to swallow with the status quo of the world. We speak of there being no “perfect” world but does it have to be perfect to be accepting. We don’t want to be alone but we don’t want to give each other the same chance of defining respect. Instead we crush each other every chance we get, killing spirits that could have been a helping hand. Everyone has an alter-ego but who is the real you? The alter-ego is your truth that you cannot define to the world so it becomes a scapegoat in a security blanket. We are all urging for a release from this illusion into a reality. We inspire with gifts and damage with curses. So why the catch twenty-two, guess it’s not “normal” to go against the status quo and embrace your alter-ego. The Earth was not given a catch twenty-two when it was given the gift of life so why have we changed it into a curse that seems to never die?