I know what you’re thinking. It's too late for the government to train you to be a weapon. For someone to approach you on the street, and to tell you that you match a certain profile. You probably won't even learn another language well enough to speak it fluently. Giant crazed attack dogs won't ever suddenly act like scared puppies when they see you. There are some things you’ll regret as you get older. There are a tonne of traditional ways to be bad-ass, and you missed the boat. But that's okay. I thought the same thing for years, consumed by some indiscriminate longing, haunted by an empty ache in my chest and an indelible sense of something I was supposed to remember. Something I was supposed to be doing. Like there was a battle waiting somewhere, a field stained with the blood of innocents and the only thing that could save them was the untapped potential of my passion. I waited and dreamed, certain that for every person willing to leap into the fray, there must also be a cause worth fighting for. A gruesome enemy, something tangible I could sink my teeth into over the roaring cheers of grateful civilians. I wanted nothing more than a villain; you need a villain to become a hero.
And then the strange letters started coming through the post. Some with instructions, some begging for help like so many unanswered prayers. And when they came for me, it felt like destiny unfolding, relief in the promise that it wasn't ego after all, I really was meant for something greater than myself. I threw myself into the training, determined to be the person they thought I was, the person their prophecies foretold. To be better. There are monsters out there, my friend. That nagging feeling of unfulfilled purpose is more than ennui, more than intuition alone. And you know it, deep down, just as I did. Our cause needs you. www.suckmythumber.co.uk __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
