something beautiful: words of wisdom from samwise gamgee

"I know. It's all wrong. By rights, we shouldn't even be here... but we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come, and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."

"What are we holding onto, Sam?"
"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for."

—Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee

as of late I've been feeling just like this.  like we shouldn't even be in this place.  and then I end up in a tailspin of wo is me how can I bring kids into this awful place?.  but then I remember that even with all the bad that has happened and all the bad that is out there, the end can still be happy.  but only if we see there's still some good in the world, and that its worth fighting for.