Texts from Late Night

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[ Posted sometime around like four in the morning: ]

Has anyone else found themselves falling in love with someone in those memories we all get? That might feel a little extreme, but the face has been sticking with me for a while now.

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I only really know the details of my situation and those of my close friends, but none of them seem that far in age from their memory selves. I'm still a college student in most of my memories, and several of my friends that are my age have memories from around their high school years. But significantly older doesn't seem very common, though I don't think it's a bad thing.

So you're like me in that respect too. It's the kind of thing we won't be able to fully understand unless it happens, but since some people can be so different, expecting them to be like the way we remember them could definitely spell trouble. But wouldn't keeping quiet be hard too?

For better or worse, I'm not the most social guy, so it does drain me after a while. Communicating through text like this is much easier for me.

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I do think being quiet could be quite hard, but I also think that might be the most fair way to handle it? To just sort of even things out without expectations, at least as best as I can? It's a bit hard to picture me doing that though, even if I'm typing it out like this. I'm probably too emotion driven, I can't quite picture how I'll handle it until it needs to be handled.

Do you feel similar?

I suppose I've thought about it for too long, I've been on this app over a year.

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That's how I feel too. No matter how difficult it would be, keeping everything locked in would be the most reasonable way to approach it. I'm used to holding my emotions back, so I envy people like you, in a way. But if things turned out like that, I think my reaction would depend on the person and how they responded to me.

I'm coming up on a year now too. It's hard to go this long without considering things like that, especially when you're remembering important people.

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Oh don't be too envious, I'm just old. We've allowed a certain level of societal freedom to be too emotional.

Haha

But yeah, I passed a year in May. What with all the identity problems foisted up on us, it's impossible not to daydream or plan, even for seat of your pants types, I'd imagine.

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In that case, I can only hope I reach that point someday (to some extent).

I only have my own experience to go off of, but Retrospec has made me think a lot harder than just about anything else in my life. And that's saying a lot, since I get lost in my own head and think things through too much sometimes. There are just so many facets - people on the network, those that don't have it, memories, souls, reincarnations (?), physical and emotional changes... there's so much.

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Not to mention the people with superpowers somehow or another and how batty the world's gone on top of it all. Magatus and Pesgare and dragons out in the wilderness.

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No kidding. I've only been to Pesgare, but even then, just hearing everyone's stories is enough for a lifetime. And seeing superpowers in person, on top of that.

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Magatus is pretty, if you're into snow. Me, I've been fond of Respatrum, in a weird way.

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I think I'd enjoy it too. What do you like about it? The atmosphere?

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The atmosphere, the craftsmanship. It's also underground, which makes the whole thing surreal.

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Craftsmanship? I'll have to go sometime when I have time off. If you've never been to Pesgare, I'd recommend checking it out too. There are lots of wares and handmade crafts and things like that.

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I've been once, but to be honest that might well be the hardest one for me to get to these days. I can't go out in the sunlight at all anymore.

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That changes things. If sunlight is a problem, Pesgare probably isn't the place you want to be.

How about Bosuma? I've never been there either, but it looks interesting.

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To be honest, I feel like any time I end up in Bosuma I end up in a bad place. I've lost my memories, gotten a run in with dangerous things, just a lot of strange happenings.