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Adaptability And You, Monday, 2nd Period

"You've had a whole day to recover from whatever trauma you might have encountered over the course of last week," Kanan said wryly. "So, welcome back to class."

A beat.

"One of the most important things to keep in mind about adaptability? Self-care. It's something I've been guilty of neglecting over the years myself. It's all too easy when your focus is going into survival to forget that you're a flesh-and-blood person with needs, both physical and emotional. So today, we're going to focus on that. Make a checklist of things to keep in mind about taking care of yourselves. And then run through it, each of you, to see if you've been doing those, yourself."

He turned around and wrote on the whiteboard - because yes, he was absolutely stealing Summer's 'danger shop classroom' program, in case he needed to conjure anything up today - Self-Care Checklist.

And then underlined it. Twice.

"We'll start with the basics for the survival of most living beings. Food. Water. Sleep. What else can you list off?"

A beat.

"And to help you with that first one, I've ordered pizza. Please, eat."

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Exercising self-care!

Prince Sidon

Sabine Wren

Nina

Del

Okuyasu Nijimura

Lana Beniko

Billy Batson

Short and sweet and Kanan won't even get upset if you sleep through it today. But there is pizza. Help yourselves tot hat.

Nina had just, like, barely gotten done from eating breakfast and she'd had a lot of pasta last night.

But she was, like, still going to snag a few slices of pizza and enjoy eating those because, seriously, she was allowed to overeat a little after a week of not eating due to being a toy.

Besides, it gave her something to pick at as she considered Grumpy Bus Driver's lecture.

Sidon would always be pleased to see pizza among the offerings, and he was happy to help himself to a slice as he considered that he mostly felt like he was already fairly good at taking care of himself, though he realized there were Elders back home would would wring their hands at such a concept, because their idea of taking care of oneself was very, very different than their prince's.

Del blinked and looked around the class. She'd missed a week. She'd gone home for a visit and.. Well the sundial didn't tell time.

"Did something bad happen?" She asked quietly and a little miserably. The word 'trauma' usually meant that.

Lana shrugged. The worst thing that had happened to her last week had been a lack of seafood and being worried about her friends. Mostly she and Norman had sat and read at each other.

She'd still eat pizza.

Food! Water! Sleep!

What other things can you think of that are important for self-care? Have you been observing those things yourself? Do you agree with them all?

"Friends!" Sidon offered out emphatically, with an encouraging pump of his fist and a bright grin. "Having friends and knowing you're not alone can be an incredible help when one is in need of self--" He blinked a little as his brain caught up with his mouth, and he laughed. "Well, I suppose that wouldn't technically be self-care, would it? Well, then, I suppose I shall propose that another important element of self-care would be engaging in something that makes you happy. And sometimes, that thing is engaging in friends! But perhaps something that one can do by oneself that still brings peace and joy would be a better choice for self-care, like a good long swim in the ocean or an exciting round of practice in the salle or shooting range! Not to the expense of those other things, though. I should rather say that being well-fed, well-watered, and well-rested are tantamount to everything else, but once those are taken care of it, the pursuit of something....happy," he was actually restraining himself from using the word 'fun' after last week, and it was not easy, "seems incredibly important."

It... it really didn't fall under self-care very much at all and yet...

"I agree that friends are really important," she offered. "Like, so you know you're not alone??????"

"Yes, that's it exactly, Nina!" Sidon beamed brightly at her, glad that she could understand even though he felt like he hadn't done a terribly good job of explaining it. "Self-isolation is not self-care! Well, unless you rather need the alone time, in which case it can be very important, but if you isolate yourself too much, you run the risk of it not being good for you at all! I imagine there's a balance to be had with it, then. It's important to have some time to yourself, but also important to be with people who love and care for you, too! Especially if you're sad or upset. Sometimes, just having someone there who understands can make an incredible amount of difference!"

And Vette was being the best about the fact that Nina had basically clung to her like glue yesterday.

"And, like, even if someone being there can't fix anything it can, at least, make it seem a little less bad, whatever you're upset about....."

"Because no one," Sidon stated with a firm nod and another toothy grin of appreciation for Nina and her shared perspective on the mater, "should have to be alone, especially when they're upset!"

"Yeah," she said, smiling a little. "It doesn't always work out that way," and it never had, for her before coming here; Nina was used to having to be alone, "but if you don't have to be alone... I... I think that's better?????"

The doesn't always work out that way did sort of tug at his heart a little; Sidon had never been alone growing up. The Zora were a communal people, they even shared the same sleeping pond, but there had been times when he couldn't help being all-too-aware of the Mipha-shaped hole that had been left in their kingdom.

And any Zora who spent any significant time with Hylians (or various other non-Zora races and species as in Sidon's case) had to do so with coming to terms with the fact that there would almost always come a time when they would no longer be there, while the Zora would live on and on...

"I," said Sidon, throwing in a jovial wink of camaradie and agreement for Nina, "think that's much better, too!"

Make the most of being with the people you have while you still had them.

And Nina just… wasn't sure what to say to that. They agreed and, like, anything else she could come up with all seemed to lead back to either things about last week or things that she wasn't willing to talk about in the middle of class.

So she just smiled, again, softly, with a little nod.

"Keeping busy????????" Nina ventured. "So that, like, you're not just sitting in bed dwelling on it????????"

Nina excused yesterday as, honestly, she really had spent most of the time sleeping, crying, or writing in her diary and that was totally fine so long as, like, she didn't spend just the next week doing nothing but that.

"...are we supposed to be messed up over what happened?" Okuyasu said, because the boy kind of didn't do trauma, exactly. His self care was seemingly just... radically effective.

"Supposed to? No," Kanan replied. "Different people respond to different things in different ways, and no two people necessarily had the same experience last week."

He shrugged. Speaking as someone who was almost publicly executed after spending a week thinking that one more connection he had left to the Jedi already had been, well. Kanan had some trauma he wasn't fully over yet, himself.

Meanwhile, Okuyasu was the type of person who reacted to the death of his brother by going 'I'm gonna go make that guy who I tried to kill my best friend'.

So perhaps there was some deep trauma, but it had to fight a lot of layers of Okuyasu simplicity to peek out.

"Yeah, I know it was pretty weird. But hey, we all have all our bits back now," he said. "That's important. Helps you not take the little things for granted."

"Fun," she said softly, "Genuine fun, because things aren't really fun if you're only told they are or if they're things someone makes you gotta do. If everything is always grimdark and no fun, it's bad. It makes everything seem awfuler all the time so it takes more effort to feel happy. If someone can't feel happy or satisfied ever, it makes them all sad inside and maybe angry and then they don't wanna do things, cuz who wants to do things that are no fun ever? But can't noone make anyone else have fun. That's not how it ever works. But sometimes you can get them to smile or laugh. You can ask what's fun for them and maybe help. Without fun there is no happy. People don't think it's very important, happy, but without any happy, people die. So I think it's important. But it's gotta be real."

"For me, meditation and something to do," Lana said.

She was maybe scrutinizing everybody a bit to see who was traumatized.

He's remembered food, water, and sleep, at least.

Which is a great step up from about eight years of his life besides.

He's also here for you if you need anything at all.

If she's in today!

Sabine had debated not leaving her room, but at least for this class she figured she had to. She wasn't trying to be sharing, though.

:D I have no idea if I'll have DW access at work now that I'm moving back to another room but WE'LL FIND OUT.

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