Student Life | Issue 40

low key. Lately, Paul has been going to
Church and he likes the idea of joining
a mission group, changing people’s
lives on a more intimate level. Me, I
have a sense of pride over my own
mind. I want to write the world better,
to change the way people think
from my laptop. Some kind of critic
I suppose, but not here… my mind is
wasted in London. But whatever our
future looks like, we all know that this
cannot be all there is to life. It just can’t.
‘Oh yeah?’ I say when
David doesn’t say anything else.
‘Yeah. I know that if I stay in
my job, I can work my way up, but it’s
going to take years. And I can’t wait
years. The world doesn’t have years.’
‘So, what will you do instead?’
He shrugs. ‘I don’t know, but I do
know that I have something to offer.’
TO BE CONTINUED...
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