You know that feeling when you really want to jump into the black and white lines in your book? When your own world seems boring and you realise that you are not the main character in a haunting story?
You are not Hermoine Granger, the brightest which of her age.
You are not Bilbo Baggins who left for an adventure.
You are not Katniss Everdeen who fought for life and love and justice.
You are not Achilles who grasped and swallowed immortality.
You not odysseus who walked with giants.
You are not Aelin who will gain back her crown.
Your are not fictional.
Instead you are very real. You might struggle with school. With your mentality. With your personal life. You wish for problems so big that they would overshadow your own and turn you life upside down.
You are waiting for an opportunity.
But you know what you are actually doing?
You are wasting time.
Stop waiting.
Stop wasting.
Yes, we are not in those magnificent universes that other people created with their imagination.
But you know what?
All stories have something that anchors them into our world.
Those ideas. Those worlds. Those universes. Those books. They didn’t appear out of thin air.
Something in those books, and it might only be the nightsky, but something in there comes from our world.
So get up and out. You want to dive into their world? How can you say that when you haven’t even seen your own?
Look up! Do you see the full moon that so many legends are spun around? Would you like to touch the stars that so many myths rang about? Do you see the mountains that giants used to play on? Do you listen to the whispering of the trees? The songs of the wind? The roaring of the sea? Do you hear the groaning of the woods? Those trees, do they move in your book? Walk to face Saruman?
What are they facing now?
Your world is just as magnificent as the one you read about.
The people are just as brilliant.
Now it’s your turn. You want to be the hero or the heroine in your life?
Well what are you waiting for?
You are millennium old stardust, formed by time itself.
You have iron in your blood and calcium in your bones.
Don’t tell me that you don’t have it in yourself to be the hero you read about.
You are a force of nature.
And no one can take that away. No one but yourself.
So stop doubting yourself and get out there.