Young Writers Society

BluesClues wrote:if you're in the u.s. and you've been panicking about all the decisions this week, you're not alone <3 you're not overreacting. you're not crazy. you're not worried about nothing.

but if you feel helpless and despairing, take care of yourself. it's okay to get offline and to avoid the news and social media. take a nap. eat and hydrate. talk your fears through with someone you trust.

and tomorrow, when you're rested and cared for and feel a little more up to it, start researching to see what you can do to help.

it may feel helpless, but we've been here before, as a nation, and we fought it. and we've been fighting. it won't be easy, and it won't happen overnight. but we've done it before, and we can do it again.

By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.