Sometimes-- There's a part of me that thinks that he wasn't ready to graduate. Because this place, it helped him to figure out what he'd done, and to understand why it was wrong, but it didn't give him any vision for a different life. It didn't really give him a second chance.
When people like us first arrive here, we hate it. We can't imagine allowing ourselves to live in a place like this, and we punish ourselves for ever learning to care about anything other than the worlds we left behind. So, we come here, and we grow up, and we get better, and we graduate, but he still couldn't imagine wanting a life that didn't involve dying in the Party?
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Date: 2012-01-06 05:33 pm (UTC)Sometimes-- There's a part of me that thinks that he wasn't ready to graduate. Because this place, it helped him to figure out what he'd done, and to understand why it was wrong, but it didn't give him any vision for a different life. It didn't really give him a second chance.
When people like us first arrive here, we hate it. We can't imagine allowing ourselves to live in a place like this, and we punish ourselves for ever learning to care about anything other than the worlds we left behind. So, we come here, and we grow up, and we get better, and we graduate, but he still couldn't imagine wanting a life that didn't involve dying in the Party?