005 | Understanding | Voice Post
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Loss is something I know quite a bit about. I understand where everyone is coming from right now. Funny how it's all happening at once--or not so much. It reminds me a lot of E-Day. The first twenty-four hours were hectic. (That's an understatement.) But after that was--well, just as bad. People looking for family and friends; people finding family and friends are dead. Lots and lots of dead. Lots of loss. Lots of grief.
I had my fair share, as well as the entire world. Sera was devastated by its new, unknown attacker. And they came from right beneath us. It didn't seem to make any sense. Not that it mattered--all that did was surviving. It's still all that matters, and all we have time for.
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My parents were killed that day. Maria had sent the kids over there so we could be alone together for a couple of hours. It was a rare day. I was home and not fighting off in God-knows-where for some war that, in hindsight, was pretty petty and pointless. Especially with all that emulsion we kept seeing down there, under the ground, where the Locust live.
The kids were with them. They--
They died that day, too.
Maria was so grief-stricken. I didn't know what to do. And--I could never be there for her. I had to fight. And then she was just gone. Ten years I searched. And I found her.
Now she's gone.
Yeah. I understand.
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It's not polite to tell someone to "shut up."
On the other hand, it's not nice to fly around and damage buildings just for the sport of it either. Try a pillow, 'mano. It's just as comforting and it hurts less.
So what I guess I'm trying to say is: don't berate other's for things they can't control (and yeah, emotions can't always really be controlled, even by the strongest of us all); and at the same time don't go all insane and destroy everything around you. Revenge is great. Trust me. But in the end it won't bring anything, anyone back.
Focus that raw emotion on something else. There are much more productive things for it to be used upon.
Loss is something I know quite a bit about. I understand where everyone is coming from right now. Funny how it's all happening at once--or not so much. It reminds me a lot of E-Day. The first twenty-four hours were hectic. (That's an understatement.) But after that was--well, just as bad. People looking for family and friends; people finding family and friends are dead. Lots and lots of dead. Lots of loss. Lots of grief.
I had my fair share, as well as the entire world. Sera was devastated by its new, unknown attacker. And they came from right beneath us. It didn't seem to make any sense. Not that it mattered--all that did was surviving. It's still all that matters, and all we have time for.
[pause]
My parents were killed that day. Maria had sent the kids over there so we could be alone together for a couple of hours. It was a rare day. I was home and not fighting off in God-knows-where for some war that, in hindsight, was pretty petty and pointless. Especially with all that emulsion we kept seeing down there, under the ground, where the Locust live.
The kids were with them. They--
They died that day, too.
Maria was so grief-stricken. I didn't know what to do. And--I could never be there for her. I had to fight. And then she was just gone. Ten years I searched. And I found her.
Now she's gone.
Yeah. I understand.
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It's not polite to tell someone to "shut up."
On the other hand, it's not nice to fly around and damage buildings just for the sport of it either. Try a pillow, 'mano. It's just as comforting and it hurts less.
So what I guess I'm trying to say is: don't berate other's for things they can't control (and yeah, emotions can't always really be controlled, even by the strongest of us all); and at the same time don't go all insane and destroy everything around you. Revenge is great. Trust me. But in the end it won't bring anything, anyone back.
Focus that raw emotion on something else. There are much more productive things for it to be used upon.