Frodo:“I can’t do this, Sam.”
Sam: “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here.
But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end…
Because how could the end be happy?
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come.
And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”
Frodo:“What are we holding onto, Sam?”
Sam:“That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.”
The conversation between Sam and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (movie version). This is the moment near the end when Frodo feels completely hopeless, and Sam gives him his famous speech.
My message for you today, don't give up. You might be fighting a battle no one knows about. But don't you turn your back on your progress when you feel like giving up. Because there is a lot of good in the world. AND IT'S WORTH FIGHTING FOR!