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Sep. 10th, 2010 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyRandom, yes, but sometimes I like the ways my words go. Went. (Old words, good god old.)
Everyone, he said. Everyone can do it. No matter who you are and no matter what you can do, if you can give everything to it and train and work and try there's a place for you. Howard, Howard used to be a gardener. Screwed up his A-levels, trained as a gardener, wanted to be in the circus and worked and tried and did it.
It was an ambition, he said. Howard. It was an ambition, and I did it, and now a six month marathon of touring. You've got to know what you are. If you're an apple, he said, you have to be the best apple you can be. Work hard at it. If you're a banana there's no use trying to be an apple just to fit in. You have to be who you are as hard as you can. He grinned. A gardener's metaphor, maybe.
Everyone, he said. Everyone can do it. No matter who you are and no matter what you can do, if you can give everything to it and train and work and try there's a place for you. Howard, Howard used to be a gardener. Screwed up his A-levels, trained as a gardener, wanted to be in the circus and worked and tried and did it.
It was an ambition, he said. Howard. It was an ambition, and I did it, and now a six month marathon of touring. You've got to know what you are. If you're an apple, he said, you have to be the best apple you can be. Work hard at it. If you're a banana there's no use trying to be an apple just to fit in. You have to be who you are as hard as you can. He grinned. A gardener's metaphor, maybe.
