Flickering Hope (January 2023 Challenge)

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1. Flickering Hope January Challenge: New Year, New Me
3. VO: There was this one dream I had recently...
6. VO: In it, I had a small bright candle.
12. VO: And I was in...
14. VO: The void, or something?
17. VO: A long...
18. VO: dark...
19. VO: ...empty void.
20. VO: Yet I knew where I need to go.
22. VO: Or at least what direction my destination was.
24. VO: While I was making my path
25. VO: suddenly a huge wind-storm appeared.
26. VO: ‘I can’t loose this light’ I thought to myself.
29. VO: But like a self-fulfilling prophecy
32. VO: I failed.
34. VO: I don’t know how long I was in the dark.
35. VO: It was too hopeless to keep going.
38. VO: And then she found me.
40. VO: She was only 13, exactly how I remembered her.
41. VO: Long fluffy hair in a over-sized hoodie,
42. VO: so very very small,
43. VO: and with dreams so big and bright, it’s blinding.
44. VO: She asked with all the innocence in the world,
45. “Is everything alright?
46. You look pretty beaten down.”
48. VO: She wasn’t wrong.
49. “I don’t know where I am going.”
50. “I’ve been stuck in this void for God knows how long.
51. and I lost my light, the only thing guiding me, like an idiot.”
52. VO: She didn’t respond.
56. VO: She just... extended her torch.
58. VO: I...
60. VO: I couldn’t accept her offer.
61. VO: I couldn’t accept her offer.
63. “What if I fail and I get lost again?”
64. OC: “You have a brighter future as you are now than what I currently am.”
65. OC: “You have a brighter future as you are now than what I currently am.”
66. OC: “And y-you don’t really understand
67. OC: just how difficult our current path is, especially if we fail.”
68. OC: “Our parents would want something better and more successful that this...”
69. OC: “Our parents would want something better and more successful that this...”
70. OC: “Do you still want us to continue, despite it all?”
71. “Well duh! Of course I still want to?!”
72. “We knew how tough it was gonna be when we first made that choice,
73. and the struggles we will have to face to finally get there.”
74. and the struggles we will have to face to finally get there.”
75. “But I think you forgot something that I remember;
76. We are a lot tougher than we give ourselves credit for!”
77. We are a lot tougher than we give ourselves credit for!”
78. “You’re actively making my dreams come true!”
79. OC: “We went to art school with no formal training and graduated!”
80. OC: “We made so many friends who root for us and inspire us everyday!”
81. OC: “Heck, we even made a whole animated film all by ourselves from scratch!”
83. “Y’know...
84. *sniff*
85. “Y’know, it’s okay if we keep struggling, but that means we’re getting close!
86. “So... Let’s keep going, okay?”
88. VO: She made some compelling points.
92. VO: She’s not wrong in that there’s still going to be a lot of struggling and failures.
93. VO: But... *Torch swings across the camera as through transitioning*
94. VO: It’s gonna be okay.
95. VO: We’re gonna be okay.