Adaptability And You, Monday, 2nd Period

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"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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Re: Discuss!

[following_my_fishie]

"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."