Season 2, Episode 16. Birthday

[blue_shields]

... two years is a really long time to have been here.

It doesn't feel like it's been nearly that long.

I'm not sure if this is something I should mourn or celebrate, to be honest. I've been pretty lucky here, at least- I have Inara, I have my job, I have a purpose. That's good enough for me.

Comments

[blue-shields.livejournal.com]

Being here has changed me greatly, so I suppose I have, in a way. I know I'm not the same person I was when I arrived because of everything I've experienced here, and how others have influenced me.

[pokerfacemarimo.livejournal.com]

You sound like a guy with no regrets.

[Perhaps this is a praise, or respect to a certain degree.]

[blue-shields.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say none at all... but I feel like I've done pretty well here, all things considered.

[pokerfacemarimo.livejournal.com]

You'd go back if you had a choice?

[blue-shields.livejournal.com]

That's a difficult question. I'm not sure what happens when we DO vanish from here... and I'm not sure I'd want to leave my loved ones behind and cause them pain.

[pokerfacemarimo.livejournal.com]

[It's a while before he answers, but it's not without respect. Though how much of that can be picked up on paper is questionable.]

Celebrate and just do what your guts tell you to do.

[blue-shields.livejournal.com]

And my guts are telling me to make the most of what I have here, and worry about what happens when it does.