004. With no alarms, and no surprises

[drydrown]

For those of you who were wondering what happens if those insipid little stones we were given break: I still wouldn't necessarily recommend it until we're certain that it's absolutely nothing, but...



...Well, I certainly don't feel any different, either.

Comments

[livingimpaired]

I suppose not.

Souls are considered to be sacred things, after all. However, I don't think or view this as a soul. It's magic, no doubt, but the soul is something beyond magic. To be able to touch it, it doesn't give any sort of answer to ourselves, does it?

[drydrown]

Something like that...? I'd think I would be a bit more traumatized in some way by this entire thing if it was my soul proper, anyway.

[livingimpaired]

Right.

That said, I have no intention of smashing this stone. As I said, I don't view this as a soul. It's a thought of mine -- a thought that I have given meaning. I cannot cast it aside. So it has nothing to do about my soul, but my convictions.

Your convictions told you that you should destroy it. And so, what can anyone even say to you?

[drydrown]

...Well, that was both vaguely inspiring and moderately creepy. Consider it appreciated.

[livingimpaired]

I was hoping it was just comforting. But I will take it.

[drydrown]

I won't say it wasn't, in some way. I've just never particularly heard people compartmentalize quite that much. It was a little impressive, actually.

[livingimpaired]

I suppose I never thought of it as compartmentalizing. So that's an interesting view of how I live.

[drydrown]

Really... A good amount of what you've told me has seemed to fall under something along those lines.

[livingimpaired]

I'm honestly surprised. I guess I just don't notice anymore.

[drydrown]

I'm hardly a psychologist, but I don't think it's always a conscious thing? Who knows, maybe it is, or it's supposed to be or something.

[livingimpaired]

It's probably just a habit. Habit becomes part of who we are until we no longer see where we stitched the action into our lives.

[drydrown]

My, you really do like using twenty-five words when five would suffice. Another habit of yours, I'm assuming?

[livingimpaired]

Yes.

[ Long pause. ]

I am also funny.

[drydrown]

[...what the actual christ - ]

...Well, I certainly can't disagree after something like that, no.

[livingimpaired]

Thank you.

Though, I would say my humor is exceptionally "dry." I do attempt it from time to time. I don't know if that makes a person "funny" now that I think about it.

[drydrown]

Dry humor certainly has its place, at any rate. I'm fairly sure the British would have plenty of words with us if we decided it didn't.

[livingimpaired]

Well. Congratulations to me.

[drydrown]

Oh, very much so.

[livingimpaired]

Though, I do believe people would mean funny in another less-flattering way.

[drydrown]

Possibly.

[wow, cumore.]

I'm going to guess that troubles you?

[livingimpaired]

No, it doesn't trouble me at all. Have you noticed how odd I am? Are you all right? Has being on this app warped your view of so much on the average person?

[drydrown]

Oh, believe me, I've noticed. Some people just take that sort of assertion better than others, and it's difficult to tell with you whether you're actually just very flippant, or if the lady doth protest too much, if you follow.

[livingimpaired]

Ah, most fair.

But no, it doesn't bother me.
I've accepted I'm quite odd.

[drydrown]

Good for you, then. ♡

...Legitimately. Confidence in who one is as a person goes a long way, it's pathetic when people have no sense of themselves.

[livingimpaired]

The delusions that people wrap themselves in is just another word called "perspective." There's nothing wrong with it, however. You have your own perspectives about yourself, don't you?

Such as mine that I think I could ever be funny.