R5C4

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Title: Influence
Author: ceslas
Characters: Malcom Reynolds
Rating: PG
Challenge: Round #5, Challenge #4--Do I believe in fresh starts?
Word Count: 193
Disclaimer: Firefly owns me, I own words
Warnings: Post-BDM


Do you believe in fresh starts?

That there is a question I don’t conjure there is an answer to rightly. I see you don’t grasp my meaning… After Unification Day, well, that was not a fresh start time. It was a time to be hungry, to scrounge for work, to look for the next roof over our heads. Zoë and I, we saw a lot those days, things we never imagined could be, even after the War. Felt more like a drop into nothingness if I am feeling truthsome about it.
Now, there are them as would say Serenity was a fresh start. Mayhaps in some ways. But I would honestly tell any man as asked, Serenity, she isn’t a start, she is an end. This boat is my home. Don’t expect to be ever living anywhere else again. My idea of fresh starts burned on Shadow.
It is like this you see, life treats us to experiences. We take from them what we can or are willing to hold to. The real heart of it is, do we let that experience influence us? Or do we keep making the same gorram mistakes.