Time Lost...

"You could cry a river of tears but I swear to you; time is not coming back. Those years are gone forever and you will never get them back."
Nina turned her head facing the wall. Tears streamed down her face. "But what about what Harper said. He assured me I would get it back. He said things would go back to normal and I would be vindicated for all my suffering."
Lucy leaned her head against the wall. She didn't know what else to say. She didn't know how she could get it through Nina's head that sometimes, life never returns to how it used to be. And in those times; you take life's circumstances like a grain of salt. Toss it over your shoulder and never look back. 
"Nina, none of us can change the past. None of us can erase what happened. But the one thing we can all do, is live for today. And make the best of today. Storms come for all of us but we must be strong enough to live for another day. Your situation was bad and no one should have to endure what you did. But locking yourself in your room; trying to block out the rest of the world; won't solve your problems. It will only make them worse."
"But you don't understand. I'm tired. My strength is dried up. I have nothing else to live for. Nothing else to hope for. All my options have been exhausted. All the years are the same. How long should I go on like this? Why should I go on like this? Give me one good reason as to why I should fight back." Nina's voice was shaky now. She was trying to hold in all her sobs but now she had to let them go.
Lucy moved closer. "Because life is not in sympathy with you. Life will choke the h-ll out you. Stomp on you! Beat your face into the mud! And dare you to keep standing. In stead of handing you, your dreams; it'll had you more sorrows, more disasters. But do you know what you have to do? Laugh in it's face and declare to all that's listening you will not die. You will fight to the end. You will not lay down your will. You will laugh in the face of adversity and swing with all you've got."
"And if I do all these things and the dream still doesn't come?"
"That's no lost to you. After all, the dream doesn't own you. The part of the story you missed is, You are the dream! And has been since the day you were born..."