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[ladywithnovoice]

Back where I'm from, there were never any seasons like there are here.

Every bit of the weather was controlled and left up to the desires of the people. Did more people want it to rain? To be sunny? For flowers to bloom, letting their petals float away on a breeze? Everything left up to a vote.

It feels strange to watch everything turn dull and quiet with nothing's input but Nature's own, and just as stranger to know that it will all bloom once more very much the same way.

Do you think that most situations can be like that- a two way street that has the possibility to flourish or fade away?

Or are there things that can't ever be changed from 'good' or 'bad' once they've happened?

Just some thoughts on a nice day.

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[explosivecombat]

My experiences with this sort of thing are a bit different than most, I think; I was the sort of person often called in to handle situations that most considered impossible. To rectify things that seemed hopeless, to change a seemingly inevitable conclusion from 'negative' to 'favorable', if not straight-out 'bad' to 'good'.

I've personally found that most things like that are entirely subjective - one man's victory must be another man's defeat by necessity - but at the same time, nothing is ever as out of our control as we think it is. Even if it's just a matter of changing one's perspective on an event or an incident; everything can be rectified with enough skill, and if one doesn't have the skill to do it, there are still things like luck and favorable coincidence to take into account.

...Unfortunately, however, the weather has always been well out of our control where I'm from, no matter how much we might rage against the heavens desiring otherwise.

[ladywithnovoice]

You sound like a rather talented person, if people relied on you to do things such as that.

You're not the first person to bring up changing perspective... But I think you're the first to mention things like skill and luck. I take it that's something you know from experience, considering what you mentioned before?

[explosivecombat]

Let's say that my talent is improvisation; my job is based on that, to some extent, but mostly it's experience. All the talent in the world won't do well for anyone if one doesn't know how to use it, after all; it took a while for me to get where I am, but I'd say that it's been worthwhile.

Skill and luck, however...I've found them to have a good amount of influence in both what I do and what I'm unable to do. It's not something that most take into consideration, which is either fortunate for me or incredibly unfortunate, depending on which side is failing to consider it; just the same, I've had missions that should have been incredibly simple and straightforward fail utterly just because of unforeseen circumstances that no one could have seen coming. It's just a part of reality, really - sometimes things don't go the way you'd like them to, and no matter how prepared you are there's always something that can throw you off.

[ladywithnovoice]

On the occasions that circumstances throw a wrench in things, what do you do then? It seems like you've come to accept the idea of it enough.

[explosivecombat]

There's not always much that can be done; as humiliating as I've found it, there have been times when all I can do is accept defeat and return stronger next time, assuming I'm granted a "next time."

[ladywithnovoice]

Better to swallow the humiliation and learn from it instead of just being stubborn.

The strength you learn from it can be applied to other things, I'm taking?

[explosivecombat]

Something like that, yes - we do acquire the strength we overcome and all.

[ladywithnovoice]

I think anyone who'd remember the strength learned from here would be prepared for a lot of strange things.

To put it lightly.

[explosivecombat]

Simply a comment, or are you not finding this place to your liking?

[ladywithnovoice]

Just a comment.

I like it here, after all... I just wish there were other people from my home that could see this too.