Understandings

[veni_vidi_valui]

You people... Really.

We're all in this together, you know. The sooner you realise that, the sooner we'll all be better off.

Comments

[feels_no_love]

Too true. I admit, I had trouble with the concept of the inclusive "we" for a while, but talking to the right people does help with such bigger picture thinking.

Now I find myself a bit hungry to explore that "we" and determine where I may fit into it best.

[veni_vidi_valui]

It isn't that I can't relate to such feelings, only that... Well, it simply serves no purpose here, does it? We must all endure. Entitlement has no meaning here.

[feels_no_love]

No, it really doesn't. The trials we face seem to serve as the great equalizer, as well as showing a need for community.

[veni_vidi_valui]

Precisely! Rome may not have functioned in such a way, but there's no reason we can't.

[feels_no_love]

This is a much smaller group, more tribal in function than anything, but looser. We are as a band of Romani, drifting from place to place.

I for one want to see how this band takes to revelry.

[veni_vidi_valui]

Well... Romans, yes.

[feels_no_love]

I meant Gypsies. Some of my more valued allies. I have not been to Rome in centuries. Unfortunately my most potent enemies settled there in later years.

[veni_vidi_valui]

'Gypsies'...

[feels_no_love]

They do help with the boredom.

[veni_vidi_valui]

Do we have any here?

[feels_no_love]

I do not believe so. I myself am the only one I have seen who adorns himself in their style. At least usually. I still have my earrings, but my ponytail holder seems to have disappeared.

[veni_vidi_valui]

Then they're people?

Well, I suppose they could have some use, if they have a need to entertain.

[feels_no_love]

A people, yes. Not exactly my people, but once...well. That is long past. We share some roots in the region.

What sort of entertainment do you prefer?

[veni_vidi_valui]

Something we can all get along to, I suppose. I once tried to rally a nice little party in honour of those who were out, risking life and limb and got the most atrocious responses!

I still don't understand why.

[feels_no_love]

Can anyone argue with feasting and music and a bit of drink? It seems a universal mode merely flavored by local traditions.

I for one have contacted a potions maker and shall be getting a touch properly inebriated for the first time in centuries a bit later. That should be good for a laugh, as my fierce nature always settled to friendly embers under the influence of a good drink.

[veni_vidi_valui]

We need puppet shows...

Puppet shows, singing and theatre.