trying to move out of someone else's shadow

Have you every felt like you were trying to fit in into someone else's shoe? trying to fit in into a shoe too small or just to big? I do. I feel like I'm living behind somebody else's shadow, this big dark shadow that I can't seem to overtake. I try to be me, I try to be the best that I can be, but even that doesn't seem to cut it. This shadow seems to be the standard of everything, I will always be compared to this shadow. I do wonder at times why this shadow seems to be so good that I can't even live up or just even up to it. I do feel very hurt at times, my heart ready to burst. Why can't I just be accepted for who I am, for the man that I am, to be given a chance to show what I can do and to prove that I can be good in what I do, for who I am..just me.

Sometimes you wonder, why life has to be unfair sometimes, but I guess that is reality. Your best will always not be enough to someone else. But I also know that things will also always be subjective and people will always have their own opinion so I guess I better learn to live with that fact. I do wish that I be given a chance to shine, to show and prove what I can do. That I can love, that I can be good in what I do, that I can be more than what they think I am. But unless I be given this chance, I will always be living behind this stupid shadow.