You sound like any of the people I went to school with, because we were facing the same uncertainty that you were. No one knew what was going to happen. We lived under a shadow that we didn't understand, that the adults around us wouldn't explain until they all started getting themselves killed off, and that left the future to us and it was a dodgy future at best. It was bloody horrid to concentrate on the NEWTs wondering if you'd live long enough to see the results. But we all did it anyway because we had to have something to believe in, and that was that if we were the best that we could possibly be then that made our lives a little less temporary and a lot more hopeful. Sure, it wasn't easy and in the end we lost so much more than we actually gained, but we fought a good fight and we were sure in what we were capable of.
And you, Seamus, are more than capable of anything you want to do. You just have to do it.
You're not alone though. You might feel that way now, you probably feel pretty much on the lunatic fringe of everything, but when it comes down to it - when it's important - you will find you can depend on the people around you more than you suspect. I firmly believe that.
Take your own advice, and have some faith. All right?
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Date: 2003-09-10 10:49 pm (UTC)And you, Seamus, are more than capable of anything you want to do. You just have to do it.
You're not alone though. You might feel that way now, you probably feel pretty much on the lunatic fringe of everything, but when it comes down to it - when it's important - you will find you can depend on the people around you more than you suspect. I firmly believe that.
Take your own advice, and have some faith. All right?