You Think You Know What You Want

Sometimes you think you know

Exactly what you want

Until you are one step away from it

Until you can have it all

Until you can see it up close

And then all of a sudden

You change your mind

You realize you are a different person

Than you were when the journey started

And so after days or months or years

Of climbing the ladder

You jump off

And everyone thinks you're crazy

Because millions of people want

To be where you were

To have what you had

But you learn the hard way

That everyone wanting to be in your shoes

Doesn't make your shoes

Any more comfortable

And so you throw them away

Because they don't fit you anymore