Sunday, August 26, 2007

Dear Kyle,
I know times are hard and sometimes you lose your temper, grabbing things and throwing them about the house like a raving lunatic. But you have to realise that you only have yourself to blame. It's been an entire year and you have never once revised your work. And now you panic like a little dog in a circle of German Shepards. Well, it's your fault for not studying. And stop throwing things all over the place, the god damn house is a pig sty because of you! Now, you clearly won't do well for your upcoming exams but there's never any harm in trying. In fact if you actually study properly you may even get a C average for your A's. That won't be too bad now would it? Stop lollygagging and moping about the subjects you are going to fail and try to work to pull up the others. On another topic, your writing. It seems to be a very...very...let's just say you think you live in a world where you're going to succeed in anything that you try. Haven't you learned enough that one doesn't always get what he wants. Do you honestly think you're going to write the great novel to compare to Lord Of The Rings or even make a movie out of it? You think you're going to be famous? Lindsay Lohan is around your age, she's out there livin it up. She's got movie deals. So does Frankie Muniz. He's got a sweet car and all the spotlight you can ask for. He's probably shooting his next big movie right now. And you my friend. What are you doing? Let me tell you what you're doing. You my friend are sitting around watching cartoons and staring into space at night. Well I can't exactly blame you seeing that you're in JC and all. But then again you can't honestly say you're busy can you? You haven't done any work at all. Not even regular assignments. Something happened to you after the O levels. You just completely shut off. I don't know what it is but I reckon it's going to be what causes your ultimate downfall. Even if you do make it to a university, 2 years of inactivity and i can't imagine how brain dead you will be. What about your writing then? Or your movies? Wait a minute...what movies? You mean those tiny vignettes of yourself acting like a clown? And that 50 page screenplay you got lying around the database? Well, I've just got to say this my friend, I know you love fiction and fantasy. I can't blame you there either, for it presents a sort of escape from the dry mundane world of reality. But you must realise Kyle that the world you live in isn't like the one in the movies or in the books you read or in the video games that you play. There are no lush plains of flowers, no rainforests filled with whimsical spirits, no airships that float dreamily through the cool, calm midnight sky, no sword battles in the heat of a war, no heroics, no glory, no awe-inspiring sunrises that shine after the torturous storms settle, no quests, no journeys, no angel-like warriors called Hadriel, no kings, no queens, no trains that bring you through utopias and dystopias alike, no velvet cape of blue water that separates the worlds, no Raedrics that guard us from the supernatural, no shego, no ARC troopers for you to imagine you are, no clone commandos, no thermopylae for you to pretend you defended against 40,000 robots, no valhalla, no asgard, no Gondolia, no Barpantis, no maltiegua, no Tulem, no volcadalian, no nothing. There's only that continuous whoosh sound you hear from your air conditioner when you wake up from your dreams to reality. I'm sorry, it's alot harsher than what you dream about. Perhaps if you realised that, it would make you a better person? I don't know...Anyway I best be going now. See you around kiddo.

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