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[daikonrose]

Hello!

This is probably a pretty common question, so please bear with me. I can more or less understand why full-time, regular jobs aren't the norm here, and I guess it's not too surprising that there's no school either, but there's something I kinda don't get at all. The longer I'm stuck here, the more I can't help wondering about it.

What exactly is everybody doing all day? You're not all just dedicating your lives to skinship 24/7, right? Is there something else we're supposed to be working on, and I missed hearing about it?

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[daikonrose]

Do you also make sure to get a healthy eight hours of sleep every night?

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[thekingsshield]

Of course! Eight at least!

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[daikonrose]

[ If this was someone she actually knew, or maybe even if she was just feeling a little feistier right now, Kyoko might be inclined to chide that slacker lifestyle. But this is a stranger, and she's just kind of frustrated and worn down. ]

Amazing.... How do you do it? Is there a trick? Are you taking medicine, or drinking special teas?

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[thekingsshield]

I just close my eyes and relax! But sometimes it helps if I try to focus on what I wanna dream about.

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[daikonrose]

The focusing on dreams part sounds pretty doable, but can you really relax just like that?

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[thekingsshield]

Sure, it's as easy as pie!

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[daikonrose]

... It's useless. We must be completely different people, down to the very core. There's nothing you can teach me.

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[thekingsshield]

Huh? What makes you say that?

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[daikonrose]

Because you're describing an impossible task.

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[thekingsshield]

But if it was impossible, I couldn't do it!

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[daikonrose]

No, I'm saying it's impossible for someone like me.

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[thekingsshield]

Why? What's someone like you like?

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[daikonrose]

Someone like me can't relax when there are things to weigh on your mind creeping up around every corner.

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[thekingsshield]

Are they things you can take care of right away?

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[daikonrose]

Taking care of them isn't even possible if I can't go home. Otherwise I would just do them! With all this needless free time!! Day in and day out, I do every single thing I can think of doing, but there are still hours and hours left over and I don't get tired!

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[thekingsshield]

Well gee, if you can't take care of them, I don't see why you should worry about them all that much. After all, there's only so much anyone can do. No wonder you can't take a nap if you think like that.

If you spend so much time thinking on what you can't do, why, you'll wind up doing nothing at all, and feel like nothing.

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[daikonrose]

But I can't just forget about everything. It's one thing if I'm at work, and I have to put my problems aside to be responsible, but when there's nothing important to do... I don't have a switch in my brain for those situations.

What should I think about, then? What I can do? That's what I'm having the most trouble with, though.

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[thekingsshield]

You don't have to forget. You can just put it aside. Like putting away your sweater in your closet when it's summertime, since you ain't gunna need it until winter.

For now, what about friends?

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[daikonrose]

You must have a super organized mind, to make it sound so simple.

I do think about my friends. But since I don't know when I'll see them again, it's not the kind of thought that makes me want to relax.

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[thekingsshield]

I don't mean your friends back home, I mean the friends you can make here!

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[daikonrose]

Which ones are those? Where do I find them?

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[thekingsshield]

I'll be your friend!

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[daikonrose]

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Haha, I guess I kinda asked for that one! You're really not obliged, please don't worry about it.

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[thekingsshield]

But I like making friends!

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[daikonrose]

Well, it's impossible to argue against that. But please don't push yourself just because of my whining.