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[blastiafreak]

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As far as some people are concerned, the future is just an excuse to put off problems that they're too lazy or scared to fix in the present. When they don't have the guts to face something, they leave it for some other time and before you know it, it's become somebody else's problem to deal with.

It doesn't seem like it would be that big an issue at first. It could be something simple, like an equation you put off; later it turns out that somebody else's experiment has blown up because that formula was a missing piece they didn't have yet. Although that might be important personally, it doesn't really have much of an impact on the whole future.

But then there's the problems that do affect everyone and everything: Things that cause the planet to die. The bigger the problem, the more people just want to run from it. Things like that are too big to handle, so they just bury it, hide it away, and forget about it--and if someone comes along one day after they're gone and finds it again, then it's not their problem anymore. It's the future's problem.

Sometimes we realize we can't keep running. Maybe there's nowhere left to run, or going to be nobody else to solve it for you later. It's hard and it's painful, but dealing with it now instead of looking away and letting it get worse is the best choice.

In the end, even a difficult future is better than no future at all.

[video]

[The device is on, though she's just quiet and contemplative for a moment after writing her thoughts out.]

Isn't it kind of odd to write about the future in a place where time doesn't really pass? Not as we normally know it, anyway.

[Another long pause. Replacing one convenient technology with another may just be the same as replacing one problem with another. Will it all just happen all over again?

Rita looks like she really wants to say something as she fidgets a bit, but even after what she wrote, there are some things she doesn't want to face right away, either. Eventually, she sighs and glares at the device as though it's at fault, then ends the feed.]

Comments

[swordmastering.livejournal.com]

Writing about the future in a place like this is pointless.

[blastiafreak]

I wouldn't call it pointless. We're still experiencing time going by here. It's just that nothing that happens will have anything to do with whatever future we go back to.

[swordmastering.livejournal.com]

Time stops flowing when you're here. And as far as I've noticed, we don't age here.

Everything you are here, whatever you learn, everything - it's all lost when you return to your world, to the very minute you disappeared from.

[blastiafreak]

I understand that just fine. It's like being in some stupid limbo. But it doesn't change the fact that as far as our perception goes, time is going by.

It's not like we know when we get to go back to normal, anyway...So that just means we don't have much of a future until whenever that'll be.

[swordmastering.livejournal.com]

Hardly. This place does nothing but stand still for me. But perhaps that's just the downside of having no future.

I still find it pointless.

[blastiafreak]

So ignore it. No one's forcing you.

[swordmastering.livejournal.com]

Tch. Whatever.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

The only future we know of in this place is curses and more curses. Maybe leaving, if we're lucky.

[blastiafreak]

If you can even call that a future. The City needs to go ahead and get sick of us already and send us home.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Now that's just asking for too much.

[imperialwill.livejournal.com]

Is it odd? I think it rather...inspiring.

[blastiafreak]

What, you think it's inspiring that the only things we have to look forward to right now are nothing but curses and deities? That could be our lives for the next hundred years if the City wants! What kind of future is that?

[imperialwill.livejournal.com]

The City offers opportunities not normally available to us. Meeting those who have already passed away, for instance. Perhaps it is a selfish future, and certainly it is an impossible future, but I cannot help but hope.

[blastiafreak]

There is that, but--even when you consider that, there's no reason for us to be here so long.

[imperialwill.livejournal.com]

I've heard our presence is necessary to keep the clock underground functioning.

1/2

[blastiafreak]

So we get to be the City's fuel and some people keep it running better than others.

[blastiafreak]

...But, you know, isn't that just a rumour? Nobody's ever been able to actually inspect the clock, right?

[imperialwill.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is merely supposition. I do believe many have tried to inspect it, but have largely failed.

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[emiltastic.livejournal.com]

It isn't writing for nothing though, is it?

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[blastiafreak]

...Maybe, if it meets whatever their standards are. I just felt like writing anyway. I don't care about those dumb tokens they're giving away--they probably won't even work the way they say.

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[emiltastic.livejournal.com]

Trying won't be so bad... maybe I should do it too.

I'd give the token to someone else though.

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[blastiafreak]

They haven't done anything to people just for trying yet, so it's not like you've got anything to lose.

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[emiltastic.livejournal.com]

I just have to think about what to write...

The future...

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[blastiafreak]

It is a pretty broad topic and they didn't specify anything besides that word. You could write just about anything related to it. What sorts of things come to mind when you think of 'future'?

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[emiltastic.livejournal.com]

[ The Ginnunggagap... ]

Not much... really. I guess, the world being a better place would be one.