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Bryn Zethir ([personal profile] inlaid) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-09-11 10:26 pm

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So tell me something.

If someone wants to go home the people in charge here will do their best to get the portal aligned so they can do just that. At the same time, there's no guarantee they'll ever manage that that someone. Which means that a person waiting for a chance to go home could end up waiting not just for weeks or months but years. Maybe even the rest of their blighted life.

Knowing this, do you think it's better to hold back putting down roots just to make it easier to get up and go if the time comes? Even if it means you may be living your life among the people but distinctly separate from them as they build their lives here?

Or is it stupid to waste time, to waste your life and potential happiness on the off chance that one day you may get to return home one day?


[Is she just being stubborn because she won't be a Council Agent anymore if she doesn't return home, or because it feels like she's selling out for an easier lifestyle and having magic at long last? Her pride and sense of honor stings at the thought. The idea of never seeing her family again, of trading them up these things makes her taste ashes in her mouth. Then again she doesn't really have a choice in the matter right now anyway. She's not actually giving anything up at this point.

Really, the more she thinks about it, the more she's coming to realize that no matter what happens, she's going to have to make sacrifices of one sort or another.]


If any has an opinion or any insight I'd appreciate it.

[There's only so long she can sit on this fence before she drives herself even crazier than she feels now.]
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-09-12 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Do whatever causes you the most enjoyment and the least stress. It's kinda hard to just live waiting for your chance to go home, even if you actually want that.

Just... don't get attached, not too much. I guess. Cause even if you don't go home, it doesn't mean everyone else stays...
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-09-13 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Um, not sure why you're asking, if you know it's not acceptable you know what you gotta do.

*Lola's pretty sure she gets where this other person is coming from, a little. This username has been around as long as Lola's been here.*

It's always better to be the one making the choice, doesn't mean it's nicer. You're not whoever you were when you got here, that's probably good to remember too.
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[personal profile] ikols 2017-09-12 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Depends if you have something worth staying for.
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[personal profile] ikols 2017-09-13 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a case of pleasure vs. duty, a choice only you can make.

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[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-09-12 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)

I have a feeling everyone here struggles with this in some shade or another.

Living a half life, where ever you are, is incredibly empty though. Even in your home world you live with the uncertainty of what every day will bring, just being in this place amplifies it.

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[personal profile] realimperfect 2017-09-13 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)

All you can do is make decisions on what you have and know now. Waiting around isn't productive in any sense.

I'm just going to live by my own rulings while I'm here. If the time comes to go, I'll decide from there what to do.

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[personal profile] eternalmagic 2017-09-12 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Forgive him for not answering your question straight off, because good lord.]

What happened?
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[personal profile] eternalmagic 2017-09-13 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd expect more typos if she was drunk. But this isn't actually better, because having a crisis while sober usually means it's that much worse. It takes him a little while to answer, and in the meantime he's thoughtful.]

My advice is, don't waste your own time.

I'm at Gramarye if you want to talk.
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-09-13 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I guess the right answer is that it's better to appreciate whatever you have now instead of dwelling on the past.

But I think the honest answer tends to be more complicated than that.


[ To say it's been on his mind lately would be a an understatement. ]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-09-17 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well if you happen to come across any dazzling insights feel free to pass them on.

And I kind of have to believe the past isn't a closed book. But it's hard not to wonder how much of that is wishful thinking.
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[personal profile] otherflash 2017-09-13 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone close to me back home once told me that every second is a gift. It took me awhile, but I finally understood just how right he was.

So my advice to someone would be to focus on the here and now if they can. I know that is easier said than done, but nobody really knows what the future will bring.
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[personal profile] otherflash 2017-09-17 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's something I'm struggling with if I'm being honest.

[ Trying to figure out what his life is rather than focusing on what it was is something he has been dealing with even before he arrived here a few months ago. ]

I do know that being adrift like I have been isn't working for me, that I want something more. Knowing that hasn't made things any simpler, though.

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[personal profile] evasives 2017-09-14 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
That's a very broad question to ask so openly. Wouldn't it depend on what is waiting for someone at home? Two people who want to leave could have wildly different reasons. Living your life here doesn't have to mean putting down roots either.

[not that he's asking for homeworld details et all, but it all just seems far more circumstantial to a dead man. it kind of changes his perspective from what it might have been before scarif, because he knows his answer would be the first one if he had anything waiting for him.]
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-09-17 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's a coincidence he definitely appreciates, thus leaving the username is own name on purpose. it makes him laugh for dumb spy reasons.]

So then your problem has become exhaustion with your current way of life here.

I have not been here long enough to give you a good answer, but I would always keep your own situation in mind first. It sounds like you might be ready for a change either way.

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