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[siriusly]

It's weird to think that maybe this Earth could turn out like the one from my universe. Or timeline. Or however it works...
(I'm not really smart about all this, I'm sorry...)

But there's a lot that's similar. Even on the planet I lived on, and all the ones in the galaxy, we all use the same clock system, even though some days are longer or shorter depending on which planet you landed on. Same 24 hour clock. And this Earth uses one, too. And there's baseball and hovercars and the moon landing was about the same time (I think)...

So I wonder how long it will take for this Earth to leave the planet, if it will. Or maybe it won't because it won't make the same mistakes the Earth in my history did. Or maybe they WILL but they'll decide to do something differently. Maybe because people like us are here it's already changed how things will go. Maybe because I'm here the railways from my world can show, and maybe because someone else is here, something from their history will happen? IS that already happening?

It's also weird that I can think about all this without trying when I'm TRYING to study something else...

Comments

[oceanthief]

You'd need a lot more than an enforcer position to do that on this planet.

[siriusly]

A little work can go a long way...I know it doesn't always seem that way, but it builds up. I believe in that.

[oceanthief]

If you're human then you don't have enough time to build up much of anything.

[siriusly]

That's bleak...
I don't know if I can change your mind on that, even if I tried. I hope someone can, though. You don't sound very happy.

[oceanthief]

It doesn't really matter. What I feel isn't going to change the ways things are.

[siriusly]

Maybe not but...I hope you can find something worthwhile for you here. I mean if you didn't already, I'm just guessing from the way this all reads. And I'm not really the smartest when it comes to that anyway.

[oceanthief]

It's not worth the effort of looking; nothing here lasts long enough.

[siriusly]

Well...I hope you find something that changes your mind. It won't be any fun for you otherwise.

[oceanthief]

It's not like any of us are here to have fun.

[siriusly]

Sure, we didn't choose to be here. But we have some say in how we deal with it...in that way, it is what you make of it. To as much of a degree as you can, you know?

[oceanthief]

I know how important it is to build a prison you can live with. But it's stupid to try and forget that the bars aren't there in the first place.

[siriusly]

That's fair.

[oceanthief]

I hope that it doesn't end up breaking you. It's really easy to do.

[siriusly]

Don't worry.
Depending on who you ask, I'm either too stubborn or too stupid to let things keep me down for long.

[oceanthief]

That's not always a good thing.

[people like that don't know when to quit, don't know when the world has beaten them beyond repair...and when you cared about someone like that there was nothing more painful to witness.]

[siriusly]

Maybe not, but luckily there's people here that have my back when I get in over my head.

[oceanthief]

And what about when they leave?

[siriusly]

Then it's up to me isn't it? We'll have to see what happens if it happens. I can't predict the future after all...

[oceanthief]

You don't need to be psychic to predict that one. The only thing that's certain about this place is everyone's going to leave.

[siriusly]

Well no one lives forever. Humans anyway.

[oceanthief]

Gems do.

[siriusly]

Is that what your people are called? You mentioned that word before, but I wasn't sure...

[oceanthief]

Yeah, that's what we are.

[and then, after a pause, an addition which makes it clear she's had this conversation many times before.]

I mean that literally.

[siriusly]

Oh.

[the...rocks. that type.


ok.

well.

he also met a dragon today so he better not assume this is a lie.]

I guess it would be a lot different for a gem. Sorry...

[oceanthief]

It's fine. The earth in my own universe was pretty much the same.