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[disciprined]

Posted By: Anonymous
Date: November 17

Does anybody else ever find they feel homesick?

What do you do to make it stop?

Comments

[mithrarin]

I don't say this to be a jerk about it, but... it's hard to be homesick for a home you can't remember. So hold in your heart what you love about your home, and try to find that same good here as well.

You're always moving forward. You can't ever go in reverse. So make your present the best it can be.

[disciprined]

[This is why we don't use the PPS last thing no matter how we're feeling, Minami.]

My apologies. I had not considered that aspect when I made this post. I will ensure that this does not happen again. Thank you, though, for your advice. You are quite correct to say that I should make the best of it, no matter how strange it is. Since I cannot replicate what I had before, I suppose I will simply have to search for another way to live.

Do you find it satisfying to be here?

[mithrarin]

I don't mean to call you out... it's just a dangerous topic to enter when shinki don't have those memories. To be honest, I don't know which would be worse -- remembering, or not.

What are you missing from before?

...I'm not sure I can answer your question. I'm not a normal case.

[alchemists]

I try to distract myself when I feel sad due to homesickness.

[disciprined]

What do you find works best? I admit I am finding it hard to concentrate.

[alchemists]

Reading books, researching different subjects and things of that nature.

『 Text 』 | From 『 Toyotama-hime 』

[seasung]

The sea is my 'home'. Even now, I am never far from it. Puka.

...In theory, I should be 'happy' here. But more so than 'homesick', I think I am 'friendsick'.

[disciprined]

You, too?

I am certain I would be happier if only I were not here alone, and yet I would not want to inflict these feelings on my friends simply to make me feel better. I alone certainly couldn't compensate for everything they would have to leave behind. I want them here, and yet I know I shouldn't. It is a puzzle.

[seasung]

Our hearts are in 'similar' places.

There is one person in particular who I am sure would come if I shouted out for him. Whether it means crossing stars or seas or even these 'far shores', he would find a way here. And that is why I must make sure to never call on him. If he, or any of my other 'precious people', were to appear before me as a shinki, I do not know what I would do.

[welcome_home]

[ Oh. This is something Nanako knows all too well. She still gets it sometimes and she's been here for a while now. ]

It's okay to be homesick. Home is important, right? I miss mine a lot, too.

But sometimes when I get really sad and miss it a lot, I go find someone I made friends with here, or go somewhere I like to visit or do something fun.

It's not the same as being home, but sometimes finding something that makes you happy here makes it not so sad to be away from it for so long.

[disciprined]

I suppose you're right. I miss my family a lot. I haven't been away from home for this long before, and not knowing when I'll get to go back is hard sometimes.

I hope I have made friends here, though. I haven't been here for very long, and there are a lot of people I still don't know. All the more reason to get out and meet them, I guess. I'll have to make a real effort, when everyone's feeling better. You're quite correct, though, there's no point sitting and brooding about something none of us can change.

[welcome_home]

I think that would just make you more sad, if you just sat and brooded about it. I've never been away from home this long before, either. I miss my family lots. But. We're here to do something really important, too. So sometimes remembering that makes it a little better. I'd want them to be proud of me, when I finally get to see them again.

audio ♔ from apollo

[priforprince]

[ There is a clattering noise on this end of the feed.

Hibiki had no intention of responding to this anonymous plea for assistance - such personal, whiny uses of the PPS irritate her - but ended up looking at the comments out of a genius's preference for omniscience. It had been text, so she'd expected nothing save a mild disgruntled feeling to result.

Then she'd seen it. Written. In text. Spelled out on the screen.

"Puka."

NOWHERE IS SAFE. ]

[fauxcalibur]

Your post has made me think.

I don't believe I've ever felt homesick, though certainly there were times when I longed for places other than where I was.

I know my way of living is perhaps not the best for anyone, but should you wish to emulate it, I would say to live in the moment. Engage with life around you as it happens and leave yourself no time to dwell on things you might not wish to face.

[disciprined]

Thank you for your response, and I'm glad you don't find me entirely foolish.

I suppose I'm more prone to think like this, since I've found myself alone and unoccupied. It's only too easy for me to dwell on my problems when there's nothing more important to think of. Seeking out company and staying busy really does appear to be the only sensible solution. If only the nights were not quite so long.

[Mirei doesn't exactly want a shinki. Not as a shinki, at least.

[She does rather want the company, though. It's too quiet here.]

[fauxcalibur]

I understand that feeling quite keenly.

Should you find the nights too long and struggle to fill them, my solution to that has become watching movies on the "internet!"

[handle]

I just think about all the people and friends I've met here. It really helps. Though, it also really helps if I think about all the cool places out there to see here.

You gonna be alright?

[disciprined]

Thank you, I am sure I will be. I suppose I'm just not used to this yet.

I do want to meet more people, though, when we're all feeling more up to company. The last few days were hardly an ideal way to get to know anybody at all. Hopefully, the next time we are all together as a group, it will be under far more pleasant circumstances and rather easier to talk.

[handle]

Don't worry. I know that it's a lot to take in at once, but... you're not alone.

I'm sure there will be. We have a lot of celebrations here. It's just... lately, things have been pretty different.

[all_seeing_eye]

If you figure it out, let me know.

[disciprined]

You, too? That makes me feel much less alone.

I hope we can both find something that helps a little, at least. This is such a strange place to end up.

[all_seeing_eye]

If my shinki figures out how to make the perfect curry, that might help. A little.

[shiitan]

no. [Yup, that was all he was saying in regard to his own feelings on the matter.]

try eating a lot of ice cream at once if you can't make it stop

[disciprined]

Then you are extremely fortunate.

Eating too much ice cream would be an excellent way to make yourself feel physically sick as well as homesick. If distraction is the aim, reading a book is a far more realistic alternative.

[shiitan]

that's why you need to eat enough for your head to go numb but not enough to get sick

it's a careful balance