As We Move On.

As I leave my families little place, that I still feel strongly as if we're not supposed to go, I know without a doubt I want to continue to bring my small one as my family did. I was quite young when the full switch happened. I only remember small bits of the old ways. But mostly form what felt like hidden trips to see my parents elders, as they could not handle the change and were set up in what people called, "Miniature Villages for the Wise and Well Aged." I could not even begin to guess how many of these existed initially, but I know that now they are all gone now, and many look much like what exists in the spot my parents used to take us, this place that I just left, where I stood looking at the left over carnage of The Last Great War. I always felt like we weren't supposed to go to the old villages either. However like my parents I feel like we need to learn from the past as much as we can. I also know how dangerous this information could be in the wrong minds. This is why Teachers and Shapers are the only ones to keep and share this information quite carefully.

I always looked on in amazement at how Mother Earth has taken back what had been stollen from it. Mother Earth is many eons in existence and somehow we hadn't destroyed it yet. How close many of our Great Ancestors had come to doing so and then Mother Earth does something to end it. The Great Floods. The Great Fires. The Great Shakes and Great Explosions. All of them ongoing for many moons and even full sun cycles at a time, and being far out of character for Mother Earth otherwise. Things Mother Earth does sure, but on such a scale as to wipe out huge portions of the beings living here. Then for a long time nothing until there came The Last Great War, a massive destruction that nearly made us all extinct and of our own volition. Sometimes we seem to think ourselves smarter than we end up being it seems, and this last stretch we must have thought ourselves so smart because Mother Earth let us continue for so long without major issues. Well, actually, I suppose it was more that we found ways to some what counter these things, without realizing how bad of an after effect it had on Mother Earth. The ruins in my families place are the last of the proof of what used to be, the left over remnants from The Last Great War.

Our lives seem simpler to me and I am grateful for the changes, those of us who are quiet watchers (like myself and my mate) had a hard time before and now are seen as a major strength instead of a weirdness. We learned to live as one with Mother Earth, only keeping the technology that is absolutely necessary without being problematic. Holograms, the Wheels, and some tools that can be easily made and repaired ourselves. My parents used to tell me stories about the old ways, and how they eased the transitions for years. This process started long before they had even met. The only reason I've even been thinking about this is because I met my mate and we have a little coming. I started to worry for their future. I know how new everything still truly is and I worry about another attempt to un-change it all. The Last Great War. This is what my parents taught me, why we keep things as they are now, why we fought for the changes we have. Not necessarily to live in fear, however I can see why fear is some peoples first choice in emotion over the information. It can be scarry to not know, or do something new. No, my parents wanted us to have a deeper understanding and to be what they had been, shapers. Shapers are those of us who like teachers, hold the knowledge and the reasonings of the change, and keep it so we know better, see the patterns, and watch for signs in others. Teachers are the ones who can prove they have no excitement for the past aside from to learn from and grow past it. Shapers, much like the teachers can also talk about these things, but generally do not because we have little to no interest in passing on the knowledge, just preventing errors in animalistic instincts later. Until recently I was always set on being just like my parents.

As I ride closer to home and nearer the no wheels zone I decelerate and head closer to my spot. I can already smell the nutrition being prepared and hear the soft sounds we have all come to know as a work days end. It is probably the best part of this new way. This may be all I've ever truely known, but my parents used to tell us of all kinds of things. I know I want no part of them, but I cannot wait to get into the learning pods. I want to see it one last time before I make my final decision about bringing my little to my families little place. I will also have to be careful to wait until we find out what this little is capable of and which direction in life it will be naturally fond of, so I do have some full sun cycles to decide. Another more simple thing now that I think of it, we choose to do what we want rather than what others think we are good at based on their impressions, we know ourselves and we know where we are strongest.

I turn myself into the direction of the learning zones and quickly find an unused pod to plug into. I pull up moving pictures and long articles to upload and go over later. One benefit of being a shaper, I have that option to temporarily download something and absorb the information later. I know my mate doesn't understand this part of my job. I don't exactly understand parts of theirs either. Mostly I don't see the draw to it. Someone has to do all the things and some of us wind up doing things because no one else does it and it is a needed thing, so if not someone else why not my mate. That is usualy the answer I get when I ask too. It's not that my mate isn't good at what they do, it's not as if they do not enjoy it, it just seems to be their reasoning was they weren't interested in or overly good at anything else, so why not try it, and found out they were really good at, and basically enjoyed doing it; quiet, alone, and no one to say, "your doing x wrong" or too slow, or anything else. I can see the draw to that side of it because I like the quiet too. Although most things no longer have that kind of negativity either.

As a Shaper, I get to silently watch people, listen to conversations, read written messages; intercepted completely, or just copied for me to review. I can choose if it is interception or copied too, if myself or another decide it is important enough to stop the transmission of something that could harm our way of living here in peace. We don't do these things unless necessary, for a lot of reasons, and most of the time have no need to do this thankfully. This almost makes it a work when I want to thing. I know designers have to work with Shapers to make sure their designs keep in compliance and do not cross lines of no return. Once the design is complete the engineers have to follow the same rules; working with Shapers to make sure nothing crosses any lines of no return. The ones making the prototypes and the ones making the final products for use have to work with us too. We do a lot and are in a lot of places. We will be for a while, but I can see at some point we will be fewer and farther apart eventually as this becomes less of a worry.

Mini Tesla's give us power if and when we need it, wherever we are. The wheels require nothing of power, aside from what our bodies create. The holograms require some power, and considering my job is mostly in the realms of the holograms, I have to be sure I have that on me at most times, I do get to go fully off grid sometimes though. Most of our lives are off grid unless we need to communicate with someone who isn't close enough to use clairvoyance, which has to be a fairly close proximity, and/or combined with a strong familial bond (generally siblings, parents, and sometimes even as far out as elders or cousins) or via a forged bond of the hearts, like with mates. In our homes we tend to use the clairvoyance as much as possible. Keeping quiet has become a survival tactic, we took some pointers from other species; things like burrows, silence, and being as harmless as possible to Mother Earth.

I choose to be a Shaper not because my parents chose this, but because I love what they saw as our future. I love this vision of our new world and like my parents I believe this is working and for Mothe Earths best interest.