Settle Down

Someone once chastised me for things I wanted in life.
She said I needed to learn to settle like she had.
Her reason for settling was that people like us did not get the good, shiny and pretty things in life.
We get what's left.
That is our lot in life - what's left.
By 'people like us' she meant our appearance.
Our physical appearance was such that we did not deserve the pretty things.
I disagreed.
Loudly.
Never settle - that is what I said - I said I would never settle.
Turns out those were just words on my part.
I didn't know it then, but I listened to her and did just what she said.