pursuit of happiness

Do you know what it means to be tough?
You put in hours a day to work on your shell,
A forever shedding exterior.
Do you know what it means to really be tough?
Relentless?
To put in hours a day on something that's true,
Something that sticks,
That matters.
In the long run,
Who do you want to be?
A concocted shell of society... a product?
Or free from it all?