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- I've lost a tangent, do you have it? Part 1
- >Tired… So very, very tired.
- >Why though? The question stumps you for a time.
- >You just woke up.
- >That makes sense.
- >Remedies include specific teas you don’t have, exercise, cold shower and coffee.
- >Out of those, only coffee seems a viable option.
- >You drag yourself out of bed and furthermore out of the dark bedroom
- >The apartment still needs to be cleaned. You’ve been meaning to do a full cleanup for weeks
- >Even made a checklist. Fuck, you made several.
- >Hung them up at convenient places around the apartment to be easily spotted and remembered.
- >You still keep forgetting, or maybe you’re putting it off. You never quite seem to recall.
- >That’s your lot in life.
- >Reality Deficiency Syndrome they called it.
- >You seem to remember they invented it for you.
- >Rare case apparently. Possibly singular. You might be wrong.
- >In practicality this means you are slow on the uptake. Very slow.
- >Also means you can’t be trusted with your own safety. Well, mostly.
- >You can do simple tasks easily enough. Responsibility in any form is a no-no.
- >Other people just aren’t really there for you. Intense focus is required to even realize they are there.
- >This apparently is bad.
- >Fast moving objects also fails to register.
- >Also, apparently bad. Cars are easy enough to see. When they are parked. Not so much in motion.
- >Cause and effect: Can’t detect fast moving object at metric ton weight or more. Might wander into the streets.
- >Result: Death. Not acceptable.
- >You have long since decided that the written messages left to you by Psychologists are to be heeded at all costs.
- >They seem to know what aspects of the world you can’t handle.
- >That’s good.
- >You are not totally helpless. This is a source of pride for you. From texts you have learned people, that includes you.
- >Needs to be a positive influence on the structure of society as a whole.
- >In practical terms. You need to be able to work. Which you can.
- >You can’t really see people. That’s true. However you can read just fine. And a major way for you to interact with the world as a whole is through just this medium.
- >This they learned early on. If they need you to do something, they will text your phone.
- >Annoying peeping sounds usually breaks your chain of thought.
- >That’s good.
- >Because you can get stuck there for long times.
- >It also means you can be given commands and act on them accordingly.
- >You are sort of like a robot.
- >Input command.
- >Action follows.
- >A very forgetful, distracted robot.
- >Bad analogy.
- >Try something else?
- >What were you thinking about again?
- >Work.
- >You create and moderate websites for a living.
- >Though you don’t know what part of that makes you live.
- >How does one make a living anyway?
- >One can make living beings by procreation.
- >That you know.
- >What is a living? Is it a metaphor? A physical object?
- >That makes no sense.
- >Coffee’s done.
- >That’s good
- >Motherfucker that’s hot.
- >That’s bad
- >A scalded mouth takes days to stop hurting.
- >You can’t remember not having a scaled mouth.
- >You do seem to remember doing this mistake every morning.
- >Should probably make a note to yourself warning of the danger.
- >Oh… Look at that, you got three post-it’s on the coffee machine saying that.
- >Should probably make one more. Just to be safe.
- >The ones who makes sure you get through life just fine were nice enough to get you an apartment outside of the city.
- >The apartment is small, but cozy. It’s right next door to a store, and it’s on the first floor.
- >No stairs for you.
- >That’s good… You think.
- >Might have been a reason you should avoid stairs. You can’t seem to remember though.
- >Maybe it was elevators you were supposed to avoid?
- >You get income on a weekly basis.
- >That’s good.
- >You don’t remember your current amount of money at any given time so having a steady weekly period of income means you don’t have to plan too far ahead.
- >You are good at planning ahead. That’s never the issue. The issue is recalling said plans.
- >That’s sort of where you fall off.
- >Making notes to remember doesn’t help. You forget where you hung them. Or if you saved them on your computer. You forget where on the computer it’s saved.
- >Coffee’s gone cold… That’s odd. You seem to remember it scalding you.
- >Has it been long?
- >Probably has. Cause and effect. Cold coffee equals time has passed.
- >Or someone is in the apartment and has put ice cubes in your coffee.
- >You don’t think there’s anyone in the apartment.
- >That usually coincides with a text message.
- >Of course, you might have gotten one of those and forgotten about it.
- >It would still result in the world starting to shake uncontrollably.
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