Alright, time for this week's writing prompt from Jak.
"What is the most heroic thing you have done in your life?"
When I first read that, I was like "Hah, I've never been anyone's hero, I've never done anything worth writing about"
But the more I read other people's stories, the more I began to think about things I had done.
And it got me thinking about something else related to heroism.
Hopelessness.
When you want to be the hero, and you just can't.
Awhile ago, one of my friends on Gaia was going through a really rough time. She'd essentially been kicked out of her dad's place, she couldn't go live with her mother, and she didn't really have any relatives nearby to go live with.
So she ended up moving in with some of her RL friends, and the one girl's father.
And for awhile things were good.
But then her two friends turned into royal bitches. They kept trying to get her in trouble so the dad would kick her out. Nevermind the fact that if they kicked her out, she'd essentially be homeless.
And she'd tell me about it, and I'd sit there helpless. I'd talk to her, and listen and offer advice on how to handle the bitchy girls, and be a good friend, but because I was so far away, there was nothing more I could do.
Finally the day came when the dad did just tell her to get out. They let her come back the next day, but when she did, she told me she'd slept in the park the night before.
I wanted to cry.
My best friend had been forced to do something that ridiculous, and there wasn't a thing I could do to help her.
So we started talking about other things. One of my other friends knew enough of the story to figure out what was going on, and while the girl wasn't around, we worried about her together and tried to figure out what we even could do. We did some reasearch on boarding school type things for homeless kids, while her friend's father looked into institutions because "there was obviously something wrong with the girl"
My friend even offered to pay for her airfare if she had somewhere else that she could go, someone else she could live with who was just not within reach there.
Alas, the only person who would have taken her in then would have been me, and I just didn't have any way to actually do that.
Luckily things improved a bit for her.
She was able to go live back with her dad, and she's still there. And it still sucks pretty bad for her, but it's better than being homeless.
And, if all goes accordingly, she's gonna live with me a few months come May, and maybe even longer if those first months go over well enough with the roommates xd
But yeah. Being the hero is great, but it's utterly miserable to want to be the hero, to know that person is depending on you, whether they say so or not, and to feel like there's not a thing you can do to help.
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