“Get up.”
“C’mon now, get up.”
“You can’t stay down there. Get up.”
“What’re you waiting for? Your clock is ticking.”
“You can stand, can’t you? . . . Well, can’t you? Then get up.”
“There is no point in staying down there and licking your wounds. You might as well get up.”
“Go ahead and show them that you can. Show everyone that you can get up again.”
“Get up.”
“C’mon kid, you gotta get up.”
“Use your arms to push yourself up to a knee. You can do that much, can’t you, kid?”
“Rise.”
“Rise.”
“How many times have we been down here before, huh?? Have you forgotten?? What did you do every single time, huh?? . . . Don’t disappear on me now, kid.”
“Rise.”
“Get up.”
“Get up and grow up.”
“Reach towards the sun. Rise towards her, kid. That’s all you gotta do.”
“Rise again. And rise again. RISE KID!!”
“GET THE HELL UP, WILL YA, KID??!”
“We need you to shine for us. We really do . . .”
“C’mon! Get up!! Get the fuck up!”
“Rise, kid! Rise!!”
“THIS IS THE ONLY STORY THAT YOU’LL EVER GET!”
“The indomitable human spirit rages inside of your chest . . . Don’t you feel it stirring inside of you?”
“Your spirit rages!! I can feel it, kid! I really can!”
“It’s contagious, kid! It really is!”
“Rise!”
“Get up!”
“Don’t think, feel! Don’t doubt it, kid. Feel it! Feel it and embody it. Become it. Become it, kid. Step into it.”
“You can do it, kid. You really can. I know you can. I can feel it inside of you. I feel it in me too. And seeing you rise . . . IT GIVES ME INSPIRATION, KID!! IT GETS ME ALL FIRED UP!!”
“I am all fired up now, kid. I am rooting for you. I believe in you. Of course I do. I always did. I just need you to believe in you. Eliminate that doubt. Subtract it from the equation, kid. Getting up is inevitable. I’ve been to the future kid, I know this is true. I know you rise every time. EVERY GODDAMN TIME YOU GET UP!!”
“I believe in you . . . I really do. So use me if you have to, kid . . . Use my belief in you. Take it. Take as much of me as you need to . . . JUST RISE, KID! RISE, DAMMIT!!”
“There ya go . . . You’re doing it now, kid . . . You’re really doing it. Rise, kid . . . Now . . . run, kid! RUN! RUN KID! RUN! RIGHT INTO THAT STORM, KID! RISE AND FACE IT!”
“Run into the head wind, kid!! You see it, don’t you, what you’ll become; what you can do??”
“Run right into the wind, kid! RUN! RUN INTO IT! . . . And when you do, kid, jump, will ya? Jump for me. Rise and run, and then jump against the wind . . . do know what happens if you do that, kid? You know it, don’t ya? Of course you know it, you’ve dreamt of it your whole damn life.”
“. . . You fly, kid. You fly.”
CH 12/4/24
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