Which one?

 

People have  a tendency to tell you where you belong and who you ought to be.

 

“You look like this — so you belong there.”

“You sound like that — so stay here.”

“You come from there, you have those things, — thus, this is your lane.”

 

Some people don’t like to be put in a box and told what, where and how to do anything.

They do not wish to have just one lane to stay in, they wish to have options, to diversified, explore, experience.

 

I wondered why  society endevour to build invisible walls around you.

One glance, one assumption, one box — and they think they know your entire life story. But here’s what they don’t understand:

 

My lane is mine because I made it I didn’t inherit it. I didn’t buy it. I built/create it and

Paved it with all my struggles, hard work, pain and tears.and lined it with every “rejections” I turned into a “watch me slay.” Light it up with dreams, and goals others couldn’t see — or refuse to acknowledge.

 

People wish to keep you in a lane, because it’s a form of control. Staying in your lane means staying timid, being close-minded, limited, staying silent, staying obedient and at times dependent.

 

 However, my lane doesn’t follow their rules or road-map. My lane curves, it detours, speeds up, slows down — and sometimes, yes, it collapses.

 

So, no, — I won’t stay in the lane you assigned me, I’ll stay in the one I claimed, multiple and diverse and as many lanes as I choose and I’ve earned. Mm

Stay in your lane, you say and I answered with sass, which one?..