The hardship of having faith

There will always be obstacles
in your road to success
on your road to living out your destiny
This is a well known truth
No one denies it
Yet it makes me wonder
How many of us actually stop for a second
Just stop and think about those words
To hold those words for a few minutes
to really appreciate the essence that those words convey
I am now facing an obstacle
Yet I am also trying to make myself blind to my problems
Sometimes I find myself
Trying to hide and pretend everything is okay
To run as far as I could away from my problems and
Hoping on my return
that everything will return back to normal
the way I envisioned it to be
yet this is naive
i understand that
but to face each obstacle with
faith in myself and my ability to handle it properly
Faith in my courage to deal with the consequences of my decisions
Faith in my power to hold myself responsible for what I did
is indeed hardship
A form of intellectual and spiritual hardship that requires me
to hatch out of my little shell
and to let others into it
To expose myself as I am to others
and to suffer or rejoice being at the mercy of another's opinion
I would rather not hatch
but I can not be unborn forever
there will be a time when I have to
show the world who i really am
I am not ashamed of who i am
I just dont like to be judged
OH, the hardship of having faith!