Ds9#27 A Stitch In Time: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

by Andrew Jordt Robinson

I know that we have grown apart and that’s as it should be. We learn what we can from certain people, then we move on after we’ve taken what we need. When we learn nothing new about ourselves in a relationship that’s when the relationship is over. Or it’s over the moment when we’re afraid to learn something new about ourselves. But what I have been learning about

“We believe what we are taught.”

When I asked One Tarnal how we would learn this discipline without interaction between the sexes, he blinked and mumbled something about “distractions.” When I asked what that meant I was told that I had a loose mouth and given five days of hygiene-chamber maintenance as punishment. “You don’t know enough to ask so many questions.” I started to ask him how could I learn without asking questions when he pulled out his murking stick

you would never judge me as harshly as I judge myself.

Wherever I am along my fateline, Doctor, I no longer feel that my life is a reaction to the choices other people have made for me.