Besides

They sat next to each other, brothers, friends soul mates. The
sat hearing each second tick on the wall clock. Disappointment
had no place, in there hearts,but nor did resolve. Both of them ,
though quite, were thinking of the day they started something
to live there dream. They had both kicked cushy jobs,and a
potentially great future ahead to take this plunge. The memories
of that day were vivid in their minds. It was a new day in every
sense. The looked ahead with hope and a promise.
They were so sure of the step they were taking. They choose
a life of doing what they both loved, over a life of plentiful.
They chose a life of striving their way, rather then sailing the way
of the world. They jumped at the idea of doing things wrong on
there own , rather then doing things right the time trodden way.
Any not many were impressed by there decision, not many
precedences were present of what they were setting out to do .

Yet they never felt like underdogs. There attempts were not
inhibited by norms, nor were they expected to live up to the standards.
There was no standard that they were to be measured against. They
could set there own bench marks. There weren't any things that they
had to do, or certain ways they had to follow. While the flight plan was
uncharted, they were free, so be good or bad, to be successful or failure,
there own god damn way.

But as they went closer and closer to the sole aim that they started
to achieve, The harder it became for them to carry on. With rising
success, came adulation and expectations, Idolization and aspiration.
They were looked upon as inspiration, and they now had to live up to it .
They were expected to deliver the standards they had them selves set.
They were expected to keep trudging the not so easy off beat path they
had taken. They were to do things that they did with innovation, over
and over and all over again.Stifled, they felt the burden of there own
advancement and rise, weigh them down.And soon the power was out of
there hands, and it rested with the people who judged them.

It felt no different then the jobs they kicked, and ironically It came with a
lot more since it was solely up to them to make it work. Stifled, they decided
to close the door, move on,or should i say move back.
As they steps out of their office for the last time, they sighed with disappointment
of not being able to make it work, that this was over.
They shook hands and went there ways at the next intersection,
and sighed with relief, that what started as an excitement, and turned to
an ordeal , was finally over.