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fandomhigh2019-08-19 07:45 am
uncertain_dume) wrote in fandomhigh2019-08-19 07:45 am
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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."
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."
Re: Discuss!
"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.
Re: Discuss!
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."