[Time is abstract. It doesn't heal. It doesn't change. It doesn't do anything. Whether it's passing normally, or it's looping on itself, it doesn't matter. Time is meaningless.]
yeah. heh. not until you experience them for the first time. then next time you can go...oh, better avoid that one thing, huh.
[You can't avoid or anticipate them until you know them, and you can't know them until they happen. That's probably what they mean about two steps forward, one step back.]
[He's quiet for a bit, unsure of what else to say and waiting for her to finish her thoughts.]
i dunno. i don't think so. i don't think that sorta thing has a...finish line. i think you just kinda keep going and trying to be a bit better. and me, i'm, heh. i'm slow at pretty much everything. even if there is an endpoint, it'll take me awhile to get there.
[And he's almost certain he'll die before then. He can't say it out loud, since the future is hazy enough for it not to be truthful, but he's always known he won't make it to fifty. Twenty or so more years might not be enough.]
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yeah. heh. not until you experience them for the first time. then next time you can go...oh, better avoid that one thing, huh.
[You can't avoid or anticipate them until you know them, and you can't know them until they happen. That's probably what they mean about two steps forward, one step back.]
[He's quiet for a bit, unsure of what else to say and waiting for her to finish her thoughts.]
i dunno. i don't think so. i don't think that sorta thing has a...finish line. i think you just kinda keep going and trying to be a bit better. and me, i'm, heh. i'm slow at pretty much everything. even if there is an endpoint, it'll take me awhile to get there.
[And he's almost certain he'll die before then. He can't say it out loud, since the future is hazy enough for it not to be truthful, but he's always known he won't make it to fifty. Twenty or so more years might not be enough.]