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[digger]

...If you wanted to share some kind of message with a younger version of yourself, what would you say?

[Simon's in the plaza today, hanging out by the fountain and pondering his journal. At some point he might be scribbling out a note on a loose sheet of paper.]

Comments

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Hah. A few reasons, but the one that strikes he the most is-] Can't say I'm confident that the "me" back then wants to hear anything I've got to say.

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would be a problem. Especially if you need to warn yourself about mistakes you'll make.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Tch. There's an audible little grunt here, possibly in agreement, possibly in near silent protest]

Can't say "need" if I'm still around.

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

Just because you're alive doesn't mean you're without regrets.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

It is necessary to change regrets?

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

Not necessary. But I'm sure everyone has them, so the urge to change your own fate would probably tempt most people, at least a little.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

Hate yourself that much, huh?

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

Hate myself...? Is that how it sounds?

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

Fixing mistakes you made in the past? Sounds like killing yourself to me.

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

I guess that depends on that the results of those mistakes. If changing those mistakes could save someone else, it's worth thinking about.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Hah. She snorts here] Are you responsible for that other person?

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

I've always felt like I am. I looked after him the way he looked after me. That's how brothers should be.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

[Now there's a sentiment she neither can understand nor agree with]

...Heh. Right, like they should be.

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

You don't think so?

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

I don't see how anyone's responsible for more than themselves.

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

Well... maybe it's not a responsibility for everyone, but I feel like I wouldn't be a good brother if I didn't protect the one important to me.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

So you're a bad one right now, huh? [After all, you're changing something, right?]

[voice]

[dawndigger.livejournal.com]

...I'm the one who didn't try hard enough.

[voice]

[compos-mentis.livejournal.com]

Hah. [She feels her blood boiling already. This is pathetic. Regrets like that? ...Well, whatever.]

Good luck with that. [She said insincerely before shutting the journal]