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It doesn't, but even if you grow nostalgic in the future, I doubt you'll forget that others had different experiences.

And that's really all we can do, to try and keep moving forward.

I hope so. I just worry I'll end up being one of those old men whining about how things were harder in my day and kids these days don't know what suffering is - and that's a common refrain, among people in my home country. Everyone who grew up during the war seems to have gotten it into their heads that other people don't know real pain.

I think the fear of it is enough to keep you on the right path.

Besides, that's hardly 'the good old days', is it?

There will always be too much suffering in the world, but if there's less than there used to be, it kind of gives the lie to the idea that the old days were good, doesn't it?

I mean, what kind of person gets upset because young people don't 'know real pain'? Assuming that's actually true, it's nothing to complain about, it's something to be proud of. Anyone who's angry because people aren't suffering enough needs an attitude adjustment of the type I have been known to use my claws to provide.

I certainly can't imagine a future in which I would ever complain that young lovers who crossed the lines of propriety no longer had to worry about being shoved into cassettes like dangerous lunatics who can't be trusted to live on their own and can't be put out of everyone's misery because they have innocent twinsparks who'd die along with them.

I can't imagine a future in which I would ever complain that miners aren't locked in the mines, or that the gladiatorial pits don't exist.

But I also don't believe that anything less than those things is 'real pain'. I don't think you do, either.

I would actually consider it a major Decepticon victory if someday, all young people had to complain about was relationship drama and difficult teachers. And I wouldn't assume that those things don't hurt. I might even start believing in Primus.

But...I'd probably assume that there were people fragging each other up somewhere else.

People can hold both views at the same time - that their time contained both the highest highs, and the lowest lows. So it's simultaneously the good old days and the hardest time of their lives. Personally, I have to admit I can see the sense, there. Life is full of contradictions; the worst days of my life in the depths of a violent city in war in all but name also had wonderful days with my family.

Personally I would be relieved, like you, if the next generation didn't have to have that sea of contradictory anxiety and shame and moments of fleeting joy. I would rather they have stable lives, without the chaos or uncertainty. I'll be glad if a day comes none of them can fathom my life's trauma.

...which I realize sounds dangerously close to 'waah my life is so hard', but that's not how I meant it.

I think I know what you mean. Remember, I'm the one you said should probably get therapy.

[Ravage grins.]

Maybe if our society ever enforces a code of ethics on mnemosurgeons and the like, I'll consider it. But the only medic who's ever asked me about my mental health was clearly under the impression that all relationships between Decepticons are abusive.

Anyone who asks me about my mental health is usually familiar with my mother, and are under the impression I'm going to be a criminal just like she is. It's... exhausting, to be blunt. They never seem to view me as an independent entity.

Well, that sounds dreadful.

Sometimes I wonder what it is like to have 'parents', but the situation you're describing is not one that I envy. Sorry that happened to you.

It's alright. I suppose they're not being irrational when they suspect some of her violent tendencies might have rubbed off on me, because that sort of thing does happen. I just wish they wouldn't assume it automatically. That makes me sort of defensive, which doesn't exactly make for the ideal conditions for therapy.

Yeah, but so do preconceptions on the part of the therapist.

"I want the coding for my inhibitory cassette protocols removed and I would like to have my frame restored to pre-cassettification specs" does NOT mean "my carrier is abusing me."

It means: "someone did something to me and my partner a long time ago and it wasn't fair, and I would like to have it undone so that my lover and I can both be certain every decision I make is actually mine, and yes, I am mad at him right now, because he asked me to do something fragged up, but fixing this will put an end to that fragging problem, and by the way, if he'd been doing that all along, I would have had it undone a long fragging time ago!"

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