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When your worst fears become reality, then what?

You've reached the worst.

Is it as bad as you thought?

Is it worse?

Is it somewhere in the middle?

When you're surrounded by people who can forge bonds of diamond from nothing but sand and you're left trying to keep the sand from simply slipping through your fingers, then what?

The more you worry, the more the sand escapes you and the more others appear to know what to do.

Are they lucky? Am I unlucky?

Are they skillful? Am I lacking?

Are they scared at all, or is it just me?

Do they not get swallowed by fear, but challenge it?

Defeat it?

How?

Please, tell me how.

Please, let me finally find everything I've ever wanted.

Please don't push me away.

I promise that I care,

I'm just too scared to speak up and say something stupid.

Please don't let me be surrounded by diamonds while I'm sinking into the sand.