I grew up with a loving mother and father. They had arguments sometimes, and sometimes they had to leave the room and go for a walk or a swim. But they never fought. My father was the family’s rock, and my mother the heart. With them, I always had a home to come home to, no matter where I spent my nights. Yosemite took that away. I wish I could tell them how much I miss them.
My mother and I don’t talk very often. I travel a lot. But whenever I arrive at a world where she is, we always talk. She sometimes wonders if she did well be me. She always worries about me. It’s what mothers do. Our job as children is to try not to get too worked up when they fuss over us. And when they are basically immortal, they have a long time to fuss. Perhaps that is why I travel so much…
Everybody paid when the government finally defaulted on our debt. The government could not pay to deploy the largest military in the world anymore. Officially, they recalled all foreign troops, but they did not have the money to bring the armies back. The marines, and some lucky soldiers, took navy taxis home. They had to abandon all of their heavy equipment. The rest had to hunker down where they were and hope things did not get too hot.
I grew up in a nice house, on a small bay, on a beautiful lake in northern Minnesota. I dated farmer’s daughters and ran from farmer’s shotguns. I never knew any other life before Yosemite fell. Since then, I’ve learned how the upper crust lives. The grand houses, the balls that are more strutting than partying, and everything else that goes with being rich. That world is ok to visit, but I don’t care for it. All i need is a ship and a place to go to make me happy.
Humanity has spent a very long time wondering what it means to be…well…human. Sentient. An individual with free will. I believe I have summarized all the tests down into a single sentence, a single statement. It is the ability to understand your own mortality, to realize that you could die, and yet be capable of risking it all to save someone else because you choose to. That is the essence of being human, whatever race’s face we wear.
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