If you can feel content and you classify it as 'happy', for yourself, by your own definition of happy, then that sounds good enough in my opinion. Close enough for government work, at least.
[ He's been clinically depressed for like ten years, who's he to judge? ]
I mean, to be fair. I'm a waitress, and I want to some day do something with zoos, or animal conservation or something, so if all goes well I don't be going into government work, unless the government suddenly takes and interest in such things.
[ Not only is she from a different culture, but she's from a culture with a near completely different set of sayings. She was bound to miss this one. ]
Not yet. I plan to start doing that this year though. I have another two or three years of school here, so I think it's okay it took me a while to get on that.
Yeah. Plus, I imagine there's a bit of-- I mean, it's hard to really plan for the future. Not knowing for sure how long you're gonna be here.
[ Luther had had that problem. It was one of the reasons he'd constantly dragged his heels on joining Aegis, reluctant to put down those kinds of roots -- mostly for how his family might react to the news that he'd committed here, rather than back home. ]
Yeah... I'm hoping permanently, for myself. I've been getting as much feedback from my teachers and bosses, and even some sorta-friends I have, so that I'll be able to figure out what I need to do to meet my goals. I figure that I should act both as though I'll be staying here permanently and that I might be ported out any day.
I don't want to be left flailing around with nothing to do when I'm an adult.
Somebody, I can't remember who, made the point that living here anticipating being Ported out isn't much different from living life somewhere else. You never know when you might die, or how many days you've got left.
So might as well make the most of them.
[ Easier said than done, but he's still trying, slowly. ]
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obediences) wrote2019-03-28 10:51 am
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[ He's been clinically depressed for like ten years, who's he to judge? ]
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I mean, to be fair. I'm a waitress, and I want to some day do something with zoos, or animal conservation or something, so if all goes well I don't be going into government work, unless the government suddenly takes and interest in such things.
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[ They're both so hit-or-miss with humour, he can't actually tell if she recognised it or if she was joking too?? Man, they suck at this. ]
There's a few zoos here. You asked them about volunteer work or internships or anything?
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[ Not only is she from a different culture, but she's from a culture with a near completely different set of sayings. She was bound to miss this one. ]
Not yet. I plan to start doing that this year though. I have another two or three years of school here, so I think it's okay it took me a while to get on that.
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[ Luther had had that problem. It was one of the reasons he'd constantly dragged his heels on joining Aegis, reluctant to put down those kinds of roots -- mostly for how his family might react to the news that he'd committed here, rather than back home. ]
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I don't want to be left flailing around with nothing to do when I'm an adult.
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So might as well make the most of them.
[ Easier said than done, but he's still trying, slowly. ]