52 Tales of 2016: Changes
Mar. 6th, 2016 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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February: https://plus.google.com/115245633245722817719/posts/SC8bqrELNuU
9. The Doctor and Sarah: The Deadly Assassin Part 3: http://fardell24.dreamwidth.org/103975.html
10. Changes:
Changes
As one goes through life, there are changes in the way that person lives. As the person grows, their identity grows and changes as they mature. Puberty, graduating from primary school to high school (or going from an Elementary to Middle or Junior High if the person in question lives in the United States), starting to date (or court) a person one is interested in, these all cause changes. These can be positive, but the change can often be negative. Potentially negative, as in the case of one falling pregnant without a support network.
Or the negative change of being diagnosed with a serious condition, such as a form of cancer, an eating disorder or AIDS. Any of these events have an effect upon one's identity, the sense of one self. Or it could the simple act of changing one's image, the way the person presents themselves to the world.
All of these thoughts were going through the mind of an university student as she arrived home after a semester away. Elysia Howarth was excited to be arriving home after her third semester at university. There had been small changes in the rural landscape around the small property owned by her parents (mainly bare paddocks had been sown, and some areas of vegetation had been cleared), and the deciduous trees had lost their leaves.
She pulled up in the usual spot clear of the house, and got out of the car. She took in a moment to take in the susurration of the evergreen trees around her. She also took the moment to take in the feeling of the wind on bare skin where there hadn't been such before. “Ahh!”
After a few minutes, she grabbed a small book from the passenger seat and read a short passage from it. “Thank you,” she said looking upwards, with a hand raised. Even five months before, she wouldn't have made such a gesture. She then thought for a moment about the decision she had made that had changed her outlook on life. That decision had been followed by another decision that had changed further how others at the college viewed her. That change had been difficult to deal with but she was able to rise to the challenge.
After a few minutes such she decided to go in. 'I wonder what they will say,' she thought, not for the first time. After all such a drastic change was bound to be controversial.
She knocked on the door and heard footsteps. It was her mother. 'This is it,' she thought. Her mother opened the door. “Hello, Elys,” she said in her usual tone, which then changed into one of slight shock. “Where's your hair?”
“Shave for a cure.”
February: https://plus.google.com/115245633245722817719/posts/SC8bqrELNuU
9. The Doctor and Sarah: The Deadly Assassin Part 3: http://fardell24.dreamwidth.org/103975.html
10. Changes:
Changes
As one goes through life, there are changes in the way that person lives. As the person grows, their identity grows and changes as they mature. Puberty, graduating from primary school to high school (or going from an Elementary to Middle or Junior High if the person in question lives in the United States), starting to date (or court) a person one is interested in, these all cause changes. These can be positive, but the change can often be negative. Potentially negative, as in the case of one falling pregnant without a support network.
Or the negative change of being diagnosed with a serious condition, such as a form of cancer, an eating disorder or AIDS. Any of these events have an effect upon one's identity, the sense of one self. Or it could the simple act of changing one's image, the way the person presents themselves to the world.
All of these thoughts were going through the mind of an university student as she arrived home after a semester away. Elysia Howarth was excited to be arriving home after her third semester at university. There had been small changes in the rural landscape around the small property owned by her parents (mainly bare paddocks had been sown, and some areas of vegetation had been cleared), and the deciduous trees had lost their leaves.
She pulled up in the usual spot clear of the house, and got out of the car. She took in a moment to take in the susurration of the evergreen trees around her. She also took the moment to take in the feeling of the wind on bare skin where there hadn't been such before. “Ahh!”
After a few minutes, she grabbed a small book from the passenger seat and read a short passage from it. “Thank you,” she said looking upwards, with a hand raised. Even five months before, she wouldn't have made such a gesture. She then thought for a moment about the decision she had made that had changed her outlook on life. That decision had been followed by another decision that had changed further how others at the college viewed her. That change had been difficult to deal with but she was able to rise to the challenge.
After a few minutes such she decided to go in. 'I wonder what they will say,' she thought, not for the first time. After all such a drastic change was bound to be controversial.
She knocked on the door and heard footsteps. It was her mother. 'This is it,' she thought. Her mother opened the door. “Hello, Elys,” she said in her usual tone, which then changed into one of slight shock. “Where's your hair?”
“Shave for a cure.”
