Hi! This is Rikku -- I was one of your students (and TAs!!) a while back, and way before that, we were both minions of Deadpool's. Oooh, and I won the Science Fair! That was pretty neat. I hope everything is going okay with you and so on??
I don't know if you remember this -- it was over a year ago? -- but in class one day, I told you that things were getting worse and worse back home. That we saved the world, but it wasn't doing any good, because people were fighting each other and being stupid and ruining everything we'd worked for.
That's when you told me "Anger is an energy. Use it." I'd never really thought of it that way before, but I realized you were right. So I used it. I didn't know how to start, so I wrote some letters. I wrote to anyone who would listen, from all the different factions. I tried to get everyone talking to everyone else.
It's a long (and possibly boring) story, but we just finished a week-long conference where -- somehow -- everyone sat down and acted like grown-ups and talked about their problems, and we made some real progress. I don't think there's going to be a war, any more. The Ronso took back their blood oath to wipe out the rest of the Guado. And we Al Bhed are going to have a Home again. It's actual change that might be starting. I can't believe it's all real.
It was hard, and it was messy, and I am going to be taking the longest vacation of my life. But first I had to say thank you. For teaching me how to use anger, instead of just hoping it would go away.
Letter, Mailed Thursday Night from the Calm Lands of Spira
Hi! This is Rikku -- I was one of your students (and TAs!!) a while back, and way before that, we were both minions of Deadpool's. Oooh, and I won the Science Fair! That was pretty neat. I hope everything is going okay with you and so on??
I don't know if you remember this -- it was over a year ago? -- but in class one day, I told you that things were getting worse and worse back home. That we saved the world, but it wasn't doing any good, because people were fighting each other and being stupid and ruining everything we'd worked for.
That's when you told me "Anger is an energy. Use it." I'd never really thought of it that way before, but I realized you were right. So I used it. I didn't know how to start, so I wrote some letters. I wrote to anyone who would listen, from all the different factions. I tried to get everyone talking to everyone else.
It's a long (and possibly boring) story, but we just finished a week-long conference where -- somehow -- everyone sat down and acted like grown-ups and talked about their problems, and we made some real progress. I don't think there's going to be a war, any more. The Ronso took back their blood oath to wipe out the rest of the Guado. And we Al Bhed are going to have a Home again. It's actual change that might be starting. I can't believe it's all real.
It was hard, and it was messy, and I am going to be taking the longest vacation of my life. But first I had to say thank you. For teaching me how to use anger, instead of just hoping it would go away.
-Rikku