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Flickering Hope January Challenge: New Year, New Me
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VO: There was this one dream I had recently...
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VO: In it, I had a small bright candle.
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VO: And I was in...
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VO: The void, or something?
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VO: A long...
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VO: dark...
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VO: ...empty void.
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VO: Yet I knew where I need to go.
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VO: Or at least what direction my destination was.
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VO: While I was making my path
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VO: suddenly a huge wind-storm appeared.
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VO: ‘I can’t loose this light’ I thought to myself.
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VO: But like a self-fulfilling prophecy
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VO: I failed.
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VO: I don’t know how long I was in the dark.
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VO: It was too hopeless to keep going.
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VO: And then she found me.
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VO: She was only 13, exactly how I remembered her.
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VO: Long fluffy hair in a over-sized hoodie,
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VO: so very very small,
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VO: and with dreams so big and bright, it’s blinding.
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VO: She asked with all the innocence in the world,
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“Is everything alright?
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You look pretty beaten down.”
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VO: She wasn’t wrong.
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“I don’t know where I am going.”
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“I’ve been stuck in this void for God knows how long.
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and I lost my light, the only thing guiding me, like an idiot.”
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VO: She didn’t respond.
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VO: She just... extended her torch.
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VO: I...
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VO: I couldn’t accept her offer.
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VO: I couldn’t accept her offer.
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“What if I fail and I get lost again?”
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OC: “You have a brighter future as you are now than what I currently am.”
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OC: “You have a brighter future as you are now than what I currently am.”
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OC: “And y-you don’t really understand
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OC: just how difficult our current path is, especially if we fail.”
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OC: “Our parents would want something better and more successful that this...”
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OC: “Our parents would want something better and more successful that this...”
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OC: “Do you still want us to continue, despite it all?”
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“Well duh! Of course I still want to?!”
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“We knew how tough it was gonna be when we first made that choice,
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and the struggles we will have to face to finally get there.”
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and the struggles we will have to face to finally get there.”
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“But I think you forgot something that I remember;
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We are a lot tougher than we give ourselves credit for!”
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We are a lot tougher than we give ourselves credit for!”
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“You’re actively making my dreams come true!”
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OC: “We went to art school with no formal training and graduated!”
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OC: “We made so many friends who root for us and inspire us everyday!”
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OC: “Heck, we even made a whole animated film all by ourselves from scratch!”
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“Y’know...
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*sniff*
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“Y’know, it’s okay if we keep struggling, but that means we’re getting close!
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“So... Let’s keep going, okay?”
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VO: She made some compelling points.
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VO: She’s not wrong in that there’s still going to be a lot of struggling and failures.
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VO: But... *Torch swings across the camera as through transitioning*
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VO: It’s gonna be okay.
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VO: We’re gonna be okay.
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