Awesome post, and I feel the same a lot myself. I get in these mental trips about how crappy things are but I have the ability these days (and I don't really think it was ever gone) to tell myself to not give up, and to work things out. Nothing is worth giving up my freedom, my life, my creativity. I need to cherish what I'm capable of instead of being scared to be a free thinker. I have felt so pushed away from wanting to succeed that I really haven't ever been able too, but I now am looking forward to my future, more and more as I understand that the time and effort I put into each day is how quickly I will achieve such things.
-dp