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A Letter of Hope. As buttocks sat in the bustling coffee shop and gazed at the white paper in front of him, beads of sweat broke across his frontal bone and trickled slowly d take in his face. How was he meant to save down what he was odor when he couldnt explain it? He knew his emotions were in in that location somewhere moreover he respectable couldnt reach them. They were locked tight, stuffed somewhere inscrutable down. He was comfortably blunt and that was something that terrified him. It was as if the numbness was pull him into a black hole. He was trapped, ineffectual to total out. His thoughts were jumbled and out of sync. He couldnt tell if what he was feeling was real.Was he cap adequate of feeling emotions anymore? It was as if John was a ghost. Doing what he had to do to get through the day. Doing what he could to situate his capture proud. That wasnt alimentation in his opinion. It was merely existing. His hands started to tremble. face up at Josie he an alyze her. She had a look of pure submerging on her face as she wrote all(prenominal)thing down. He couldnt help but envy her. Sure her life wasnt stark(a) but it was a hell of a lot better than his. She could choose her own career without being screamed at for hours on end. She could get one bad tramp without being told she was a failure.She didnt bewilder to be perfect, and she was beginning to slowly show that. That was something John would kill for. Even his trounce wasnt enough. John had tried his trump to please his novice he analyse terribleer than anyone else he knew. Hed sacrificed so much to try and make his mystify proud, but nonhing was ever reasoned enough. John closed his eyes and leaned his headway back thinking of all the propagation he was seat down by his father. Pain welled up from kabbalistic inner(a) him. He thought of the times he was told he was hated or not good enough just because hed been beaten in a math competition.He thought of the time s he had come home to his father enterprise his mail then calling him horrible when the results werent up to his standard. The times his father wouldnt speak to him because he hadnt got the perfect mark. Maybe his father not talking to him would have been a relief pitcher if it put uped more than an hour. John was starting to get more and more tired every day. Tired of the constant pressure, tired of not meeting expectations and of not being able to live his life the way he cherished. but most of all he was tired of the constant nagging role in his head. The voice that wouldnt cave in him alone.The voice that was the cause of so many nightmares. If John could be who his father cute him to be then he would. But he just wasnt fit of that anymore. He was sure of it there was no way that he could reach his fathers larger than life expectations. It just wasnt possible. His father always precious that little bit more. He in conclusion decided that it was time to share how he wa s feeling with someone else and that person would be Josie. He bounced his legs absentmindedly, took a deep clue and with his heart pounding in his tit he started to write down the linguistic communication that had plagued his mind for the last few months.He wrote the quarrel he hadnt had the courage to posit to himself. Can you fill what I beguile? No I dont think you can I see images of nothing and I attempt to make that nothingness mean something as hard as I try there is still nothing and that nothing is empty I am somewhere else now, remote I am surrounded by people and the blueness of the sky but still nothing has changed everything remains the analogous I am still alone. As John finished writing he let out a breath. He raked his hands through his hair nervously. He thought it over one last time. Was he really ready to arrant(a) his soul to Josie?Taking another deep breath to help calm his nerves, John folded the garner and sealed it with some glutinous tape. With his hands trembling he turn over over his most private thoughts to Josie. afterward they had exchanged letters they said their goodbyes and went their ramify ways. Once John got outside he looked up to the hazy sky and let out a shaky put-on full of relief. Maybe just peradventure Josie would be the one to save him in the beginning it was too late. He hoped that she would open the letter before graduation and help him put back together the shattered pieces of his life. Because deep down that broken boy wanted to live more than anything in the world.