{"sf1_id":735116,"sf2_id":null,"title":"\"Life\"","author":"Seth Drake","words":116,"posted_at":"2014-07-25T04:05:00.000Z","tags":["Living","Love","No-Yiff","education","hope","life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/735116-life","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/735116","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=735116\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"#12 of Thursdays\n\nWritten for my friend's Thursday Prompt, 27th July, 2014.\nWhen I was a younger dragon (for I'm not yet old), the Headmaster of my school had a favourite prayer, that of St Ignatius Loyola. This is written in tribute to him and to the words of the saint. I am not Christian, not religious... but those words have stayed with me all my life and these, which are not nearly so wise, are one of my attempts to capture at least a fragment of it.","content":"Can you help me, my dear friends,\n\n.\n\nto support my kin and not to simply shelter,\n\nto encourage them and not resort to force,\n\nto guide and not to drive before me,\n\nto show the way and always from the front;\n\n.\n\nto follow on but never follow blindly,\n\nto know my truth but never cease to question,\n\nto fight for right but choose my battles wisely,\n\nto hope all things but know which can now be won;\n\n.\n\nto learn some new thing perhaps unexpected,\n\nto meet new souls who walk besides my path,\n\nto give my all in work and yet in pleasure,\n\nto live each day as though it were my last.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}