text; un: vivi

[ornitiers]

what do you do when something you were told, turns out not to be true anymore? not true here? when you have more time than you thought. i didn't have to really think about the future. but here, i don't have to worry. i can plan. i mean, besides helping on missions.

[Being told he probably wouldn't live much longer than a year or so. And then Aurora reassured him that that wasn't the case. Vivi now has a lot to consider....]

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Un: TerribleTinkerer | Text

[badnewsandshitlist]

If you’ve been bracing yourself for an end that never came, no wonder you feel unmoored. I’ve had similar moments-when the future I expected was torn out from under me, and I was left staring at something I’d never considered: time.

The trouble is, time is both gift and tyrant. With more of it, you can plan, yes, but you’ll also find it whispering that you’re wasting it if you’re not careful. My advice, for whatever it’s worth, is to take the same precision you bring to a battlefield and aim it at your days. Make small plans first, test them, discard what doesn’t suit. Build a future the way you’d build a rifle: piece by piece, until it fits your hand perfectly.

It will never stop feeling strange, but strange is survivable. You’ve already proven that.

un: vivi

[ornitiers]

both a gift and a tyrant? oh. i think i get it. what you're saying. it sounds like what i was doing back home anyway. just trying to make the most of things, taking each day and doing what i could. focusing on that.