The world is ending tomorrow. What do you do today?

[not_a_liar]

What, The Boy Who Lived is supposed to do something about the end of the world now, too?

You know what? I think I'll just sit back and watch it come.

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[tm_summers]

I'm with you, kid.

[not_a_liar]

Well, you know. It gets old being either the saviour or the downfall of everything everyone holds dear, depending on the date, time, location and barometric pressure.

But I suspect I don't have to explain that to you.

[tm_summers]

No, I understand the sentiment quite entirely. It's rather tempting to run away but then what's left for your identity?

[not_a_liar]

What good is an identity if it's one that is not really you, anyway?

[tm_summers]

Is it you or is it not you? Just because it isn't what you would have chosen or what you decided for yourself doesn't mean that it isn't you.

[not_a_liar]

You're right. I don't disagree. I would only wish for an identity of my own making, rather than the one forced upon me. Don't you hate being judged for a persona that you had no choice in assuming?

[tm_summers]

I ... honestly think that at this point the persona and the person are nearly indistinguishable. Fortunately or unfortunately they judment of one is the judgment of the other. You're young, I think. I'd tell you to walk away while you can and if not be prepared to deal with the consequences.

[not_a_liar]

It's never just as easy as "walk away", though, is it.

And you're right again. Separating the two is impossible.

[tm_summers]

No. It isn't. But I notice that wasn't a question.

Which leaves you where?

[not_a_liar]

Staring at an end I know is coming. And knowing I'll do what I have to when the time comes, whatever that might mean.

[tm_summers]

Which is all anyone can do, I think. At least you have the option of taking action. Dealing with the consequences isn't fun, but you do have the ability to MOVE instead of just waiting for it.

[not_a_liar]

Of course. But there are still days when I wish all I had to do was sit back and let someone else take care of it all.

[tm_summers]

Sitting back and taking no action *is* taking action.

[not_a_liar]

You know what I mean.

As much as I might like it to be, that's not the action I would take.

[tm_summers]

If it's not the action you would take, for whatever reason, predetermined or otherwise, expected or otherwise, then it's something you may as well get as comfortable with as possible I suppose. But yes, I do understand.

[not_a_liar]

I'll never be comfortable having people expect more from me than I can deliver. I may get used to it, but it won't ever be comfortable.