April System Mingle

[thespaceopera]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: Possibly!
Action: April System
When: Month of April!


[Welcome to the Belt, a huge asteroid belt that's been terraformed for life. Here you can explore the different asteroids, become a rock star, race on some ATVs, enjoy not being underwater.

In other words, it's a mingle! Get in everyone!

> System Info ]

Comments

[brainiest]

Do you think we'll ever get used to it?

[exothermia]

[He's quiet for a moment, turning the question over in his head.]

I think I won't. Something else is bound to happen sooner or later. But I can learn to enjoy it in the moment.

[brainiest]

I think that's a good outlook to have. If you're constantly thinking that things are just going to get worse then you'll never enjoy the good times when they come.

[exothermia]

[It also makes it harder to find reasons to keep going, knowing it will all collapse again soon enough.]

And what do you think? About getting used to it.

[brainiest]

I didn't think I would, not really. It was something I thought about in the Drabwurld - that things were always going to be awful, that... I'd never feel the kind of easy happiness I did before. You do get used to the happiness you make for yourself, though, I think. Either that or you just learn to find it in different ways.

[exothermia]

[Easy happiness. Erik had never anticipated finding any such thing, and it was a belated realisation to him those rare times he had. Those moments had evaporated under the heat of the world, of course, yet the memory of them lingered. And what is he doing now, if not trying to make his own happiness? At least he's trying to build a sense of stability.]

It sounds rather "one door closes, another one opens". But you're not wrong.

[brainiest]

I suppose it's something like that. So many terrible things happened that... I think I was a little bit desperate to make sure I could cling to anything good that did happen.

[exothermia]

I've found that there's plenty to appreciate about what lies in between as well. Neither good nor bad. Just the mundane.

[brainiest]

Sometimes the mundane is better. [ For real. ] It's... Wonderful, actually.

[exothermia]

It is.

[He'd put a lot of value in it, especially in retrospect.]