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There’s A Future Out There

I want you to know that I’m going to stay, even though so many of the other people who have loved and cared for you haven’t.

Ryan Fan
2 min readDec 12, 2019

There is no hope here, you said.
You’ve been let down so much that now, it’s all just a game
You don’t care about how your actions, words, and punches affect other people
You don’t care about the people you surround yourself with.

You’re hurting, and I know you are.
I’m around you all the time and I want you to know I’m hurting, too, seeing how the world, how your people have betrayed you.
I want you to know that I’m going to stay, even though so many of the other people who have loved and cared for you haven’t.
You’re still going to be in pain. I can’t take that away because I’m not Jesus and I’m not God.

You act like there’s no future,
You navigate each day like every single day is your last, like our lives, are nothing but a video game and a joke.
And I can’t blame you for feeling the way you do.
Because in your mind, there is no future.

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Ryan Fan
Ryan Fan

Written by Ryan Fan

Believer, Baltimore City IEP Chair, and 2:35 marathon runner. Diehard fan of “The Wire.”

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