[There are people that aren't with us anymore that I have to fight for too.
Those words and the ones that follow them cause something to twist painfully within his chest, cause his heart to skip a beat before pounding rapidly back to life. Suffering a loss so grave, so deep that it was enough to break you and being forced to continue on, being forced to move forward, to keep fighting, even without that person at your side.
It never went away. That pain, that confusion, that knowledge. Wondering if there was more you could have done, thinking back over that moment over and over and over, imagining it a hundred, a thousand different ways, all with different outcomes.
It was because of those losses that one became stronger, that one became more determined to protect those who were left behind. To become braver, to know that their loss would break you entirely.]
Yeah. I know. [Probably better than anyone.] But being brave doesn't mean you're not afraid. It means you have something worth protecting. So you gotta keep fighting, even if it seems impossible. Because you can't stand the thought of losing anything else.
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Those words and the ones that follow them cause something to twist painfully within his chest, cause his heart to skip a beat before pounding rapidly back to life. Suffering a loss so grave, so deep that it was enough to break you and being forced to continue on, being forced to move forward, to keep fighting, even without that person at your side.
It never went away. That pain, that confusion, that knowledge. Wondering if there was more you could have done, thinking back over that moment over and over and over, imagining it a hundred, a thousand different ways, all with different outcomes.
It was because of those losses that one became stronger, that one became more determined to protect those who were left behind. To become braver, to know that their loss would break you entirely.]
Yeah. I know. [Probably better than anyone.] But being brave doesn't mean you're not afraid. It means you have something worth protecting. So you gotta keep fighting, even if it seems impossible. Because you can't stand the thought of losing anything else.