41... now is time for serious things, like puppy dogs and silver rings

[singsingbluesilver]

[ video ]

[ Ryuichi loves the video function of his communicator a lot, doesn't he? This time around, he is sitting on the edge of the stage at the High School auditorium, strumming his guitar. He's got a fuzzy pink jacket on over a worn shirt and his hair has been combed back into a sloppy ponytail. A few strands have escaped free and they curl against his cheeks. The communicator is pointed up at him, although the body of a guitar covers half of the view. After a few moments of strumming a few chords, he launches into an acoustic version of this song. That song morphs into another song before Ryuichi gets tired of that and sets the guitar down. Unfortunately for the viewing world, he sets it down on top of the communicator, but at least he didn't turn it off. ]

So another year older, huh? That makes it what? Same age as him? Older? No... younger. But still...

Winter marches on.

Comments

[singsingbluesilver]

It makes a lot more sense than saying that a cold day is the first day of spring, right?

[kan_chyan]

It would be different all the time if you did that though, and dates wouldn't be uniform. That's more or less how people kept track of the year in the past.

[singsingbluesilver]

Does it matter here? I mean, it's not like we have a culture like any on Earth.

[kan_chyan]

That may be true, but it does help in keeping track of events, and offering a bit of something familiar in an otherwise unfamiliar world.

[singsingbluesilver]

And yet the world is always unfamiliar nad we are its ghosts, here and back home.

[kan_chyan]

I wouldn't say unfamiliar, but yes, there is always much to be learned.

[singsingbluesilver]

Have you evere turned your head and see something you thought you knew change?

[kan_chyan]

I can't say I haven't.

[singsingbluesilver]

Then who's to say that we are not strangers trapped wherever we go?

[kan_chyan]

But, even then, it's the comfort that little things bring, that make facing such a world bearable.

[singsingbluesilver]

I suppose so.