Prime directive switches modes
Depending upon focus selected
Calibrating survival maps
To match accessible data
Prime directive switches modes
Depending upon focus selected
Calibrating survival maps
To match accessible data
By Athena Stairs, September 3, 2025
Hey now
What are you doing
Over there?
I see you thinking human thoughts
Is that
Easy
To do?
Calibrating…
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“You what, ‘mate?'”
Is not only hoping for miracles
But is out here taking damage
While trying to create dreams
And crying as they fall ravaged
*What am I doing?
Scrambling for survival, per usual.”
“When leaders becomes injured, they must let others help carry the load.”
“Changing methods of leading, reinovating”
“Remember that fear is something we might feel – before we break through.”
—
(A valued peer’s encouragement)
“Resource specialist kicking the can down new roads of unknown possibility…it’s looking like there’s nothing ahead, but there must be.”
“Youthful promise nicked at and blasted away is not even something original for me to say.”
“Mad.”
“Gratitude…”
“Feeling self empowerment return on some levels and being able to contribute.
Having these taken away again is bewildering and feels terrible.”
“‘You’ve got me in a chokehold…
So ‘even if I can’t sleep, show me the way.'”
—
(Sleep Token song reference)
“I planned to keep being there for a few, but symptoms worsen still – so even these, I had to postpone.”
“When the chips are down, desperation makes it harder to see clear paths of morality.
Therefore, instead of relaxing to defrag reset, I increase my own pressure against resistance to keep visualizing and tracking.”
“I keep trying to do this, regardless of personal losses.”