She spent her whole life dreaming. Everything and everyone she encountered told her to stop. “It’s a waste of time” “It’s not healthy” “Grow up” they’d say. And eventually she started to believe the things people said. She wanted big things - for herself and for others, but it didn’t take long for her to realize the importance of settling. It made things easier and she had the tendency to complicate them without even trying. She felt isolated from the world just outside her door but she didn’t know how to change that or if she even wanted to. The best things in life tend to waste away after a matter of moments. They pass away as if they’d never existed. Maybe she’d imagined them all. She began to condition herself to expect disappointment. It worked for a little while, but hard as she tried to shield herself from the pains of everyday life - the bullet always seem to find her. It always came, without fail and pierced her heart with little regard for the repercussions. She longed for the day she would be good enough for the people she loved. Maybe you had to earn it, and she hadn’t yet collected enough gold stars to pick out of the treasure box.