FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org whether or not they concern themselves with it doesn't have anything to do with you
[Just because it's been determined for you doesn't mean you have to settle for it. And it sure as hell doesn't mean it can't be changed if you find a way. The best way to keep that from happening is never to try. Through fear, or weakness, ignorance or inaction.
(He's as guilty of it here as anyone in the crew. He can't make a move without putting his home on the chopping block. That doesn't mean he's accepted that that's the way things have to be forever.)]
[It's a difficult question. Luciola cared... but he also had a fatalistic streak a mile wide, and care... it did little in the end to change the things that had happened in his own life, let alone others.]
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Those who are powerful tend not to concern themselves with such thoughts.
[Right and wrong. Morals.
The powerful determined those themselves, in his experience. All those less powerful could do was work within it.]
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whether or not they concern themselves with it doesn't have anything to do with you
[Just because it's been determined for you doesn't mean you have to settle for it. And it sure as hell doesn't mean it can't be changed if you find a way. The best way to keep that from happening is never to try. Through fear, or weakness, ignorance or inaction.
(He's as guilty of it here as anyone in the crew. He can't make a move without putting his home on the chopping block. That doesn't mean he's accepted that that's the way things have to be forever.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
don't you care at all
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FROM: luciola@cdc.org
Unfortunately, my care does little.
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
keep thinking that way and that won't ever change
[The best way to make sure you fail is to convince yourself never to try at all.]
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That which I am powerless to change will not, no.
[its easy Eren there are just some things that are changeable and some are not...]
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
if you give up and accept things the way they are, then you're always going to be powerless
[Needless to say, he doesn't believe in that. No matter what the circumstances are—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
it doesn't have to be that way forever
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Of course, factors and situations may change. In that case, so does the possibility of success.
[Quite logical, right?]
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
you're fine sitting on your hands and hoping it'll happen?