6th campaign

[campaigns]

[Dictated; someone's feeling a bit chatty and also curious.]

Cryptic messages aside, did anyone actually become what they wanted to be when they grew up?

We start out thinking that we know exactly what we want. Then, we don't. School forces us to decide on our future when we still don't know who we are or what we want from life, and before you know it, you're getting your degree in something you more than likely will never use for the rest of your life.

I suppose I'm just wondering if anyone is actually doing something they thought they would be doing.

Comments

[molotov]

Do you mean as a small child, or as a slightly older child with a sense of reality about the world?

[campaigns]

Either. Both? If the two are different.

[radiantwingedone]

Partially. I was, and then decided would rather not be.

[molotov]

Then somewhat, in regards to both.

[quits]

Did you get a card, too?

[campaigns]

Only somewhat?

[molotov]

Well, I did not gold medal, and then my country's government collapsed only a few years into my employment, so... somewhat.

[campaigns]

Then you're currently not in the profession that you thought you would be?

[campaigns]

[He flips it over in his hands, still looking at it.]

I did.

[radiantwingedone]

Correct. Because I quit.

[campaigns]

What was your profession? Is your profession. Should I say that? [He's still not 100% clear on her answer.]

[campaigns]

Aha. See, the question was if you are currently doing what you thought you would be, to which your response would be no.

[He's trying to define his question a bit more clearly]

Might I ask what profession you quit?

[radiantwingedone]

True enough.

Knight, although perhaps more properly defined as mage-knight. [ Yes, the sort with a sword and armor, and spells. ]

[molotov]

Mercenary, now.

[campaigns]

[...Oh.]

Weren't you an ambitious child.

[molotov]

Well, as a child, I wanted to be a gymnast. Gold medalist, you know. But I came in fifth, I did not medal at all.

[campaigns]

That's not the reason you jumped into being a mercenary, is it? Because you didn't win a medal?

[campaigns]

[Where are all the accountants and lawyers?]

I see. I can imagine that'd be a stressful job.

[ninjainviolet]

Well, yes and no.

[Now that's cryptic.]

[molotov]

Nyet, of course not. My father was a government agent, and I decided to follow in his footsteps. There is no future in gymnastics for a twelve-year-old fifth place Olympian. I started training that winter.

[radiantwingedone]

Particularly when the empire you served decided it would be better off without you and your best friend alive.

[campaigns]

[It's less cryptic and more annoying to Eli.]

Can't anyone here give a straight yes or no answer? It's not that hard.

[campaigns]

Isn't that a bit harsh? What ever happened to "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again?"

[campaigns]

[He opens his mouth to say something, but now has no idea what to say to that.]

That's... a good reason to quit.

[ninjainviolet]

[That's what happens when people who have been involved in world events reply.]

Actually yes it is. Because although I became what I wanted to be when I grew up, I also became something I hadn't expected.