If you ever stop to take inventory of your life, you might be able to understand where this analogy makes lots of sense. Often times many people smile against a back drop of sadness, they cover up their unhappiness by filling themselves with the materialistic things of the world. I wonder how many people out there are full and still empty.

Even the most attractive person on the outside can be hollow on the inside. The person who is financially well established can be internally lacking. Even the person with the most friends, can still be alone. The hardest thing to do is try to marry the external desire for success with the internal need for peace and satisfication.

I am sometimes a victim of this analogy, because more often than not there is some element of emptiness felt when things aren’t completely in order. There is, in my opinion, no such thing as a moral victory in life. Moral is basis for the word morale, and I don’t think that a moral victory equals a morale boost. I want for someone to define for me what is moral victory actually is?

A man with confidence, strong and independent, outgoing, inviting personality with a damn good education. A man with a swag unto himself and able to go toe to toe with the best, yet one who still yearns for that emotional, internal pleasure. More than sex, more than temporary relief and gratification; it is the desire to be a man well rounded on the outside and complete on the inside.

While only time will tell if these two worlds can be harmoniously merged together, there is a sense of failure when you feel like you’ve been so close, only to really be so far away. I have no problem admitting that I have failed at the something, and I also have no problem admitting that more work needs to be done. I do however have a problem accepting that no one seems to be ready to work with me, to fight to overcome.