Deja vu [Book-2: You are anti-fragile]

Expected yet unexpected

𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯
𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢-
𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘰.
𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯
𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢-
𝘚𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘰𝘬𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘭
𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯.

Xie Lian was by the balconies of his room in the royal palace, thinking hard of many things.

It had been a few months since the last excursion, and he had been thinking hard on how to know the world more.

He had been going to a few places. And the world was definitely more than it seemed to be.

Xie Lian was also pondering about what Tian Xing had said a few days ago.

"𝑋𝑖𝑛𝑔-𝑗𝑖𝑒, 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑑?"
"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛. 𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦."
"𝑈𝑔ℎ...𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑑."
"𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙. 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝐵𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦."
"𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦? 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑠𝑜?"
"𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠. 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡."
"𝐼𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟? 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒?"
"𝐻𝑎ℎ𝑎, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑗𝑜𝑏𝑠, 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝐼𝑓 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑜?"
"𝐴ℎ 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡."
"𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒."