Relief_City and Nature_Thanatology_The C.A.I Program
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Relief
Dragons.Dragons everywhere.Anywhere I looked, anywhere I see.There were dragons everywhere.They surrounded me, flying all around. They filled my vision and the sky. They filled the air and the ground beneath me. They filled the space before my very eyes. There were so many circling me and they were so numerous too. So numerous that even though I was standing on a cliff watching them soar with plenty of space to freely move and turn, I felt choked. Overwhelmed. At their utter presences, they almost took my breath away. I remained rooted, standing in the spot where I had stood to see them.Awestr...
City and Nature
I always hated outdoorsy stuff; nature hikes, fishing and especially camping. Why bother going out into the middle of nowhere when you can have all you ever wanted in the city? Besides, there’s Wi-Fi. My friends disagree, of course. They tell me I need to be outdoors once in a while.“It’ll do you some good to escape from the screens you keep staring at all day.”I tell them I’ll go if only to get them off my back for a while.But the nagging begins again after a few weeks.“You know our ancestors would spend every day of their lives out here, right?”Yeah, yeah, I know they would.“They would...
Thanatology
TW: DeathThe Merriam-Webster definition of thanatology is as follows: “The descriptwww.onedoor.ccion or study of the phenomena of death and of psychological mechanisms for coping with them.”2032I wake up at 3 a.m., as is my habit. It's a cool autumn night, and a shiver goes up my spine as I pull on my sweatshirt.However, the shiver has nothing to do with the cold. I've been having the same nightmare for weeks, and it always wakes me at 3 a.m., right as I die.The story leading to my death is never the same: one night it's a terrible natural disaster, another it's my heroic attempt to save a drowning animal, ...
The C.A.I Program
I work for a calling center in San Francisco. All employees will stay home and take numerous calls with the recent pandemic. Compared to my colleagues, I have a pretty old computer, but it gets the job done. My days have been the same so far, family time and work, but something seems a little off with my computer. My desktop has many tabs open when I step out to go to the kitchen or the bathroom. It's not very odd because it happens from time to time. But one day, something very stranger happens. The call center I work for has a number counter of how many calls we have answered in a day, call...