"I will always be someone who is trying to become better"

A vow to “always be someone who is trying to become better” shifts identity from a fixed status to a living practice. It refuses the fantasy of arrival. Betterment is not presented as a trophy but as a direction of travel, a compass bearing. The self is described as a verb, an unfolding. That subtle move exchanges perfectionism for fidelity: not “I will be the best,” but “I will keep tending the flame.”

“Someone who is trying” emphasizes attention over outcome. It honors effort, the quiet, stubborn labor of revising one’s habits, learning from errors, and returning after disappointment. Trying is neither halfhearted nor naive; it is a disciplined tenderness toward one’s limits. It allows for incompletion without collapsing into complacency. In this stance, failure becomes information, not a verdict. The work is to stay in conversation with one’s own becoming.

“Always” extends the promise across a lifetime. It understands growth as asymptotic, one can draw nearer to the horizon of one’s ideals while knowing the line is never finally crossed. That knowledge fosters humility: no deed grants exemption from further care, no insight renders us finished. The ideal of “better” also stretches beyond private mastery. It can mean widening empathy, refining the courage to serve, aligning words with deeds, improving the small field one tills each day. The aspiration is ethical as much as personal: to be less harmful, more useful, clearer, kinder.

Such a stance defies cynicism. It acknowledges suffering and contradiction while choosing renewal over resignation. It invites small, repeated acts, listening longer, correcting quickly, studying again, making amends, beginning before one feels ready. The dignity lies in the orientation, not the applause. To keep trying is to keep faith with possibility, to treat life as practice rather than performance, and to let the arc of one’s days bend, however incrementally, toward goodness.