I Stopped and Looked Back, All I See Is Darkness

Every one, every single one of us used to have this clear cut picture of what kind of person we would be when we are grown up back when the innocence of childhood was still deep within us. Loyal, honest, hardworking and the list goes on but when faced with the reality of this dog-eat-dog world how much of that values instilled, that idealism remained? Do we still cling stubbornly to that expectations of old, to the principles that we are used to? Or did we change imperceptibly, slowly without we noticing it until by the time that we knew of it, it is already too late to turn back and we are left with what we are now, stranger even to our ownselves.