justprompts: Life is about changes, what changes did you go through this year?
Backdated to shortly after Christmas.
I don't think life is about changes. Are they a part of it? Absolutely. Is there more to life than then? Again, yes.
Life is never about only one thing only, is it?
But yes, this year has been rich in change.
About a year ago, things were as they had been for a long time. I was sheltered and cared for, with the man who raised me and waiting for something that was going on, slowly, to hopefully make things better. It wasn't perfect, far from it, but it was known, knowable, familiar. And we thought that when the change came... well, we didn't know it would come either as soon or as quickly as it did.
That didn't mean we weren't ready. Working against impossible odds has a habit to keep you on your toes.
[locked to characters who know where she comes from]
And then it started happening. Not a year ago - almost at the end of this time. The impossible happened. The Portal to the outer world opened again, and it had been so, so very long since that had happened.
Then it all changed in only a few hours.
I met Sam Flynn. The Creator's son, whom Flynn didn't think he'd ever see again. I saw hope return to Flynn's face that hadn't treaded there for hundreds of cycles, and joy, pure and unalloyed until fear undermined it, at the reunion.
I saw a father and son fight for the first time. I saw each of them make chaotic choices and that it can turn out for the better.
I saw a dictator come to ruin. I saw a creator die. I saw a boy turn into a man.
Changes.
I saw the destruction of the only world I'd ever known, deeper than the destruction of everybody I'd known and cared about, many cycles before. Obliterated to the barest structures - the Ocean of Simulation and the ground the rest had been built upon.
I saw the world I'd only dreamed about, the world of the Users.
I saw grief. And I saw my first sunrise.
I turned from an electronic construct and the only apprentice of a millennium-old Zen loner into a... well, business woman employed by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Oh yeah. The whole woman thing. Bodies are complicated! The whole thing where glands affect moods and vice versa? Huge thing to get used to. Different reactions. Along with everything else I'm learning, it's getting acquainted with my body again. Not that I'm complaining! But it's a big change.
[/locked]
... basically, I moved from a very sheltered, very isolated home to LA. Working for a big company as PA to its newly starting CEO, and involved many changes - from lifestyle to life rhythm. Even basic things as spending time around children or listening to music are new to me. I learn fast, but it's a big step.
Good thing I have people close to me who are willing to help me along every step of the way. New people. Everyone I knew until Sam Flynn showed up is gone.
Oh, and there is the ocean. I can touch the ocean again.
I'd missed that for an incredibly long time. I just miss other things, now, instead.
I don't think life is about changes. Are they a part of it? Absolutely. Is there more to life than then? Again, yes.
Life is never about only one thing only, is it?
But yes, this year has been rich in change.
About a year ago, things were as they had been for a long time. I was sheltered and cared for, with the man who raised me and waiting for something that was going on, slowly, to hopefully make things better. It wasn't perfect, far from it, but it was known, knowable, familiar. And we thought that when the change came... well, we didn't know it would come either as soon or as quickly as it did.
That didn't mean we weren't ready. Working against impossible odds has a habit to keep you on your toes.
[locked to characters who know where she comes from]
And then it started happening. Not a year ago - almost at the end of this time. The impossible happened. The Portal to the outer world opened again, and it had been so, so very long since that had happened.
Then it all changed in only a few hours.
I met Sam Flynn. The Creator's son, whom Flynn didn't think he'd ever see again. I saw hope return to Flynn's face that hadn't treaded there for hundreds of cycles, and joy, pure and unalloyed until fear undermined it, at the reunion.
I saw a father and son fight for the first time. I saw each of them make chaotic choices and that it can turn out for the better.
I saw a dictator come to ruin. I saw a creator die. I saw a boy turn into a man.
Changes.
I saw the destruction of the only world I'd ever known, deeper than the destruction of everybody I'd known and cared about, many cycles before. Obliterated to the barest structures - the Ocean of Simulation and the ground the rest had been built upon.
I saw the world I'd only dreamed about, the world of the Users.
I saw grief. And I saw my first sunrise.
I turned from an electronic construct and the only apprentice of a millennium-old Zen loner into a... well, business woman employed by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Oh yeah. The whole woman thing. Bodies are complicated! The whole thing where glands affect moods and vice versa? Huge thing to get used to. Different reactions. Along with everything else I'm learning, it's getting acquainted with my body again. Not that I'm complaining! But it's a big change.
[/locked]
... basically, I moved from a very sheltered, very isolated home to LA. Working for a big company as PA to its newly starting CEO, and involved many changes - from lifestyle to life rhythm. Even basic things as spending time around children or listening to music are new to me. I learn fast, but it's a big step.
Good thing I have people close to me who are willing to help me along every step of the way. New people. Everyone I knew until Sam Flynn showed up is gone.
Oh, and there is the ocean. I can touch the ocean again.
I'd missed that for an incredibly long time. I just miss other things, now, instead.