My Little Ant Farm

When I was a toddler, still growing up to face the world, I like several others, wanted to be a number of things. At times, I would sit with my legs dangling over our sofa's arm rests and pretend to be a pilot or sometimes I would tie a ragged cloth over my head and imagine becoming Ryu from the Street Fighters. The possibilities seemed so real and the world seemed vast and full of potential for new endeavors and experience.
But as you grow older, these possibilities seem to narrow down to a few 'realistic approaches' towards life, like an ant farm having only a few ins and outs with only a scanty number of predetermined paths. Imagination is blocked by heaps of sand that clog our vision and what we see is only one way to live.
But is that really the case? Would God, the creator of endless variety put a limit on something so simple? I believe not. Rather it's the society that has adapted to living only by looking at shadows from a cave, while the real world with all its colors, fragrances and majesty lies there to be explored.
What I believe is that people should not have to undertake the same trek. We, as a society need to accept and respect every diverse skill and should refrain from limiting each other to the roads that have already been used by so many.