The Self

It is so easy to lose yourself among others. For your thoughts to not be just the result of another one’s bias that has spread through your mind like a plague. How to act for what is true, and not simply for the approval of others and for how they will see you, whether it be family, friends, or strangers. Why does it all lead to the point where you cannot even trust yourself to know what is right and wrong?
Is it better to seem a failure to those important to you, following what you trust is right? Or to live and let be the world as it has always been, complete with its faults, by being what is not you, yet existing in peace, letting well enough alone, because it is really none of your business?
And what if it ends you up dead on the streets? Then was it worth it? And to have no one even know what you died for…
What do you choose? Because it seems like no matter what way you follow, you always, always end up a loser.