This I Believe

by Tristan Langford, Junior

Fall 2016

Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can’t know what form they’ll take, one day an old man, next day a little girl. But don’t let appearances fool you. They can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they’re not here to fight our battles. But to whisper from our hearts reminding that it’s us. It’s every one of us who holds the power over the worlds we create. We can deny our angels exist… convince ourselves they can’t be real, but they show up anyway. At strange places, and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine, they’ll shout through demons if they have to, daring us challenging us to fight.

And finally this question: The mystery of whose story it will be, who draws the curtain? Who is it that chooses our steps in the dance? Who drives us mad? Lashes us with whips, and crowns us with victory when we survive the impossible? Who is it that does all these things? Who honors those we love with the very life we live? Who sends the monsters to kill us, and at the same time sings we never die? Who decides what's real and how we laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we’ll die trying to defend? Who chains us, and holds the key that will set us free? It’s you - you have all the weapons you need... Now fight!