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[a_time_slip]

Do you tend to get nostalgic during the holidays? Depressed? Giddy? How do the winter holidays make you feel? My answer is no. Holidays aren't important.  I've other things to do.

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[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

Does one really "intend" to get nostalgic? Doesn't it just happen if it's going to happen?

[a_time_slip]

I think it would. I don't know anyone who goes out and says they're going to go out for Christmas and feel nostalgic.

It's not as easy as buying a fireplace and sitting a family around it.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

Oh wait, it says "tend" not "intend." Oh well. For myself, I generally maybe feel a little twinge remembering things from the past but I try not to pay too much attention.

My name is Tess, by the way.

[a_time_slip]

It's nice to meet you. I'm Janie.

Honestly, for me, there's too many other things to think about.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

Hi Janie.

If I'm going to be nostalgic, it's not just during the holidays.

[a_time_slip]

That's a good way to be... it's much more realistic.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time, many many many years, since I had a "proper" Christmas anyway.

[a_time_slip]

Is this year different for you?

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

Honestly, not so far. Not living on earth anymore probably helps.

[a_time_slip]

Definitely. Where do you live now, may I ask?

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

I live on a planet called Boukun. Earth was unable to sustain much life by the time I left (and if you're on Earth when I'm talking to you now, then I guess something screwy is going on with the space time continuum or whatever it's called).

[a_time_slip]

I've not heard of that planet, but yes, I am currently on Earth... but my situation is a little different.

I'm a time/dimensional traveler, if you believe that. This is something like a vacation for me.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yes, I believe it. I believe a lot more than I did when I was young. That's... well, you're lucky. There have been many times I wish I could be in a different time, or go back. How do you do it?

[a_time_slip]

It's not nearly as exciting as it seems. It's a natural ability that took me more than a century to control fully. You can go back, but it's hard because you can't change anything.

Though I love visiting different times.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

Oh. I don't know if I'd want to do it if I couldn't change anything. There are too many changes I'd want to make.

So you were born being able to do this?

[a_time_slip]

Even I want to change things and I know what a mistake it can be, and yes. I've been able to do this my whole life, since before I could remember.

It made for a really interesting childhood.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

Can you go back and talk to people who have died? I mean go back when they're still alive?

I'll bet it did. How did you figure it out?

[a_time_slip]

I've done it before, too many times. It took a lot of learning things the hard way and friends to help me figure things out.

Even then I still do-um, did things that I'm not supposed to. I miss the people who've died, a lot. Going back and talking to them helps but I know it's not healthy and is probably breaking some rule of time travel that I don't know about.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about it but I still think I'd like to go back and see my mother. She wasn't my birth mother but I grew up thinking she was. But then I don't know if I could do it knowing she was going to die so young. So... I don't know. It's probably just as good that I can't do that.

[a_time_slip]

It's usually good that you can't and I really should offer to take you so you could meet her.

You'll want to change whatever you can and feel like shit when you realize that nothing you do helps.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

I felt like shit when she was dying and I couldn't do anything. She sure would have a cow if she knew what my life turned out like, though.

Why can't you change anything? Is it a moral thing, or what?

[a_time_slip]

Wouldn't a lot of things change if you were able to help? Things might be small at first but they all add up and before you know it you have an alternate reality.

It's not really a moral thing because honestly I still try to break rules even though it doesn't turn out right, or doesn't work at all. I should say it isn't one of my morals.

[forever-tess.livejournal.com]

I guess so. I mean... yeah. And it was so long ago that... yeah, you're right. It's not a good idea.

I guess you have to be kind of tough to do that. To go back in time and all.