knutmeg

📍 Illinois (but not for long!) , United States

Member since March 2006

As of June 2nd, 2013 I will be unemployed for the first time in 11 years. SCARY! However, not for long, I have a new job lined up! In Texas! For the first time in 16 years I will live by my Dad and not be working in retail. I'm overwhelmed by the prospect of moving across country, but I am excited for the change!

"Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. 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. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for. " -- LOTR: The Two Towers (movie, not book)