Personal Reflective Essay: The Yellow Wall

Desires: I’d say almost all sentient beings have them, whether it be primal desires -food, water- or the most intelligent, rational wants like wanting a new job or wanting to achieve a specific feat, but to what distances would people go to make their desire reality? Humans have been known to go to extremes to acquire what they want, and those people are presumed as great, people who have superior abilities who used them to accomplish something impressive. But the bigger the accomplishment the higher the stakes and the more difficult the wall becomes to climb over. Those who find it in themselves to keep pushing are the ones who create the world around us.

In a general sense, people complete tasks to feel some kind of reward, in most cases
overcoming obstacles is the reward in itself. Because we as humans constantly seek rewards, we overcome one obstacle and we immediately jump onto the next or set a new goal to reach just to feel the same exhilaration. We seek satisfaction, but some people are made to conform to mediocrity and are content on the other side of the wall.
I feel the brick wall is portrayed more as a kind of filter than an actual wall; if you don’t strive for success, in any sense of the word (as success is defined individually), you get stuck, because you lacked ambition to get through the hardship. If you try and do not achieve, perhaps you simply did not want it badly enough, but if your endeavor proves worthy in the end despite the weight of the obstacles you faced, you’re rewarded the deserved triumph.

I personally have experienced both sides of the wall on smaller scales but have not yet conquered my brick wall.
I have experienced little victories in life like finishing a personal project as well as failures, like disappointing someone. These small defeats and victories stack up to create the most obtrusive wall of all. I feel that this is mostly symbolic of the walls we build ourselves, obstacles that are purely psychological. The ones who do not make it are the ones who cannot get passed their negativity, their circumstances, anything that might exempt them from the work it takes; they add bricks to the wall as they plaster on excuse after
excuse.
Your desire to surpass the difficulties in life is what's going to allow you to reach milestones.
You need to be clear on what you want and have the persistence to keep hitting the brick wall until it crumbles or the intelligence to scale it.

I’ve missed out on opportunities because of my lack of motivation; my wall is made of procrastination and weak will. I aim to learn self discipline, that is what I believe it takes to break down the walls and overcome the obstacles. One needs to have the ambition to reach their happiness in life and the endurance to fulfill
it.