Clairine T.

A relationship between two people with vastly different personalities and perspectives doesn't always work out well. When people are too different, there could never be a middle ground, and a huge rift is created that could not be crossed by themselves or anyone else for that matter. You could say that that kind of relationship is toxic, impossible to fix, that they should go their separate ways before things get worse between them. But when those two people are each other's closest companion, the fear of having no one else by their side often overrides how huge that rift is. Nothing could come out of it, but they only have each other. Though they aren't close and don't understand one another like how friends, or family, should, they are still marginally better than strangers, and sometimes that alone is enough to make them stay in that permanent stalemate.

Rivalry and competition are inevitable in life, but when two people become so engrossed in proving themselves to be better than the other, those two aspects can become an infinite burden that dictates their every choice and action-- so much so that they have no real goals, dreams, and desires. The two people's sole purpose is to stay in first place, whether in terms of skills, manners, appearance, etc. That intense rivalry can be said to stem from society and its more often than not impossible standards that only acknowledges the best of the best with only one name out of a billion being claimed as worthy of remembering.

Everyone has experienced that feeling of being lost: not knowing where to go afterwards, simply waiting for a past that'll never return to become their future. The feeling leaves a lonely void that at the time, or even well afterwards, makes it seem that there really is nowhere else to go. It's a period of darkness that compels us to sit idly, watching the world go by as we're plagued by thoughts of "I wish I could go back..." and "what could have been...?" But there's always a light at the end of the tunnel, and this song encapsulates that journey from the one happy experience that just leaves you feeling lost afterwards to the new light of hope that greets you once you finally traversed that dark tunnel.

Feminism doesn't mean forsaking men in favor of women's needs; feminism doesn't mean forsaking stay-at-home mothers in favor of celebrating working women and working women only; and most of all, feminism isn't only for women to support. It is a movement that promotes equality, and therefore allows support from all genders as long as they are willing to and believe in its cause. This song can be seen as an invitation for such support, and hopefully is able to convey the principles of feminism: that all "types" of women are to be supported. Different jobs, different sizes, and different personalities-- conventional or unconventional, feminism supports all women without forcing them to follow a predetermined framework in order to make them eligible for equality.

As we grow up, we've been told to never give up on our dreams and goals by the same people who laugh at us when we don't do well right away as well as those who wants us to stick to the conventional code rather than maintain each of our individual eccentricities. These lyrics are to remind ourselves of that advice, that either way we must keep doing our best to reach our dreams, and that becoming a paragon of perfection just for the sake of cheap compliments and sticking to the status quo is something that everybody could do. Rather, becoming our own person and pursuing our own individual goals are something only we ourselves can accomplish, and so we have no reason to listen to such societal expectations that condemn us to failure before we even had the chance to improve. However, it is important to understand that those people who'd laughed at our mistakes and believed that we would fail are people with dreams as well, and that they must've faced similar problems from others as they strive to become who they wanted to be. In fact, they might've given up halfway through because they believed that trying won't ever be enough, and it might as well have been us, society as a whole, that made them give up. It's a cycle of fear, hate, and pessimism, and empathy and determination are key to breaking it. We must do our best to prove them wrong-- not to turn things around so that we become the bullies and them the victims, but to instill a new hope that they still have a second chance to do what they thought was impossible.