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Albert Wesker ([personal profile] manufactured) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2017-07-13 07:29 pm

001. text // i'm wide awake the more i sleep

I'll preface this now with the notion that I don't expect anyone to respond with the content of their memories, should this be relevant to them. It's more a question being shouted into the void, because I don't care to keep it in my head any longer. Make of it what you will; treat it as a pure hypothetical if it suits you, it isn't as though I'll know the difference.

But has anyone had the suspicion that they may have been on the wrong side of whatever conflict may have been occurring in these memories of theirs? Or if not something so drastic, perhaps it's just that the person you seem to have been back then was deserving of, at the very least, a solid shake and a slap across the face.

Either way, people like to assert here that whomever you are now isn't the same as the person you're remembering, and I wholeheartedly agree with that notion. However, the question likewise comes up from time to time of whether or not the patterns we recall are what we're destined to fall into again.

That possibility becomes decidedly more difficult to disregard when the memories you receive are of someone that you have neither the interest nor the desire to become.
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[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-07-18 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yikes. I hope that didn't end too badly.

[ahahaha]
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[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-07-18 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
On the one hand, people change jobs all the time. You could have just decided this wasn't what you wanted to do with your life and left the force. It doesn't have to be a big deal.
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[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-07-18 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I never considered becoming a communist, but apparently that guy felt differently. But that's probably more a result of political environment than because I'm way better-adjusted than him.
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[personal profile] thesettingsun 2017-07-18 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that I was arrested for being involved in a communist group, and that's all I know about that because it hasn't come up in any other memories. It's like a dropped plot thread in a bad movie.