mk. 13 (text)

[paraclete]

Who: Kaworu, you!
Broadcast: fleetwide text
Action: N/A initially
When: 6/28, midday

Well,

How long can you hold your breath?

I always forget. Or, I never quite remember. Yeah, definitely the latter.

Comments

[allfight]

[ Well, this is a conundrum.

Part of him really wants to say this is a pointless conversation and walk away, maybe spitting a few more insults at this poor scrub's clearly lacking mental state.

The other doesn't. ]

Having a goal and putting everything you have to meeting it. That's not stupid. Don't be content with doing nothing, that makes you useless.

[paraclete]

Oh, but I do that.

If every aspect of every thing--the air, the lungs, the air in the lungs, the air in the blood, the blood in the body, the heart in the body, and all in the heart--if it all facilitates the realization of the goal, how can I not take joy in it?

Why would I not thank a breath for bringing me one breath closer to the utmost?

[allfight]

One, because you said you don't have to fucking do it.

Two, you can be proud of your body and what you can do but if you don't do nothing with it then you're wasting it. Don't be content with just having it work.

[paraclete]

It's hard to know about it, if you haven't found your lifeblood.

Sometimes a breath is for the sake of the soul. Sometimes the body counts for far less. I have a goal and it's more than clinging to whether or not I appreciate a working lung. I do some other things, too; not just breathing. And the value of learning cannot be understated, when a goal is bright.

[allfight]

[ He'll concede that point. ]

That's the first thing you've said that makes sense.

[paraclete]

It's good to know there's a little between us. I have a lot more joy than this one thing, of course. I tend toward the whole of things. I think they say, "The bigger picture."