path ways

First : we are vulnerable, helpless,
able only to accept what we are offered
and, for most of us, that wasn't much.

Second : we learn lessons and draw conclusions
based on the way we are treated, continually,
on a day-to-day basis.

Third : we live and treat others according to the
habits and cycles we were too easily placed in.

And, here, we are finally given our first choice :
to stay the same ~or~ to change

and this is where the road splits,
between individuality and cycles of perpetuity,
because that's all it really is.

both are rocky paths.
both will bring pain and uneasiness.
nothing is easy.

so, when you look at it this way, which would you rather be?
the product of a pattern
or you, yourself,
completely?