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[darkforcerising]

Who else blew off work to watch Perseverance land on Mars today? Show of hands?

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[darkforcerising]

Or, we could think about how many people get to experience now what you older folks got when NASA showed you all the first Earthrise photograph.

[not_as_i_do]

Look at you, putting the positive spin on things and making me feel like a bitter old fogey.

[he's so pleased, really.]

[darkforcerising]

I can't stop the passage of time, only enjoy the innovation that comes with it.

[not_as_i_do]

That's the sort of thing that ends up in books of pithy quotations with your name under it. Practicing for when you're famous for something-or other?

[he's teasing, of course]

[darkforcerising]

I mean, I'm probably in a Wikipedia article about pilots that survived a crash with an F-15.

[not_as_i_do]

Nnnnot quite the sort of thing they hang quotes on, but I'm still quite glad you did.

[and he means it, too]

How've you been lately, anyway? Remembering anything new? Not waking up on the ceiling anymore, I hope?

[darkforcerising]

I don't want to be anyone's inspirational porn anyways.

Still getting memories. I'm always surrounded by assholes in my memories. The Good Guys aren't always good people. But I haven't broken any more windows.

[not_as_i_do]

At least you're surrounded by people? So many of my memories ... I'm just alone. Or there are only one or two people there. One is always an older man, in a white uniform, sitting in a chair. I think he's supposed to be watching me.

[a short pause]

I'm beginning to wonder if I go insane, Anakin.

[darkforcerising]

Like, really? Not just metaphorically?

[not_as_i_do]

The more I see ... the more I think so. Really. I'm always wearing scrubs, even though there's not a patient in sight. Except for a few memories when I'm younger, with my wife or my children.

[darkforcerising]

Well. Fuck.

I think that's different from anything anyone else here is going through.

Have you told anyone else?