Single Rainbow [Video]

[shesalittle]

[Karolina's face appears on screen. She's smiling a little, but not as much as is her first instinct. She can't sell that level of cheerfulness these days] Hi guys. I already met some of you, but I haven't done one of these yet, so, to make it official: I'm Karolina Dean. My assignment thing says that I'm supposed to be a student. Which I'm good with.

But if we're supposed to be studying, it seems like a waste to only use the resources that come from this place. There's people here from a thousand different places, and I think that learning about all of them is the best study opportunity we have.
[Okay, she might have oversold that. It felt like too much as soon as it came out, but she's a little rusty when it comes to public speaking.

She figures she'll just skip to the questions] Anyway, it'd be great if you guys could share some stuff.

So, today what I'm wondering about is, well, faith. Whatever that means to you. Whether it's the faith you have in people, or the faith you have in yourself, or in something larger than yourself.

Um. [She half-scoffs, half-laughs with a shake of her head] That sounds like an essay question. But, it's something that's important to me. If anybody's willing, I really do wanna talk about it. [She pauses, a troubled look on her face, then forces a smile on and stops recording.]

Comments

[shesalittle]

I guess you could look for balance. But you could look at like, even letting them in a little is giving them to opportunity to hurt you. There's no real way around that. So if you're gonna risk getting hurt to have a little, is it so bad to risk getting hurt more to have a lot?

[am_i_a_monster]

[She looks down.]

It's bad if it gets you killed.

[shesalittle]

[She bites down on the inside of her lip, considering her answer] There's that.

[am_i_a_monster]

That's the thing about being an import. A lot of us have come back from the dead. It's hard to have faith again, after that.

[shesalittle]

Actually, doing that is supposed to inspire a lot of faith.

I guess they're not selling it that way, though, huh?

[am_i_a_monster]

Depends on how you died. When a loved one kills you - it's hard to have faith in people afterwards.

No, they're not. [At least she's not sold on anything.]