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xxxChosen Prompt: Where do they go to relax?
Prompt Response: The arena is loud, just as I had been hoping for. Skates scrape against the ice, hockey sticks clack together and the loud thud of the puck missing its target is occasionally heard too. Guys yelling back and forth is the loudest of it all, but I love it. I love coming here before rehearsal, while the hockey team still has the ice. Sometimes I bring a book, sometimes I just watch, but something about it makes it the most relaxing place in the world. Hero lays besides me, paws crossed and staring up at me dutifully. I bend down to scratch his ears as one of the teams scores and every man on the ice starts yelling. Maybe I'm not the type you'd assume to enjoy this sort of atmosphere, but it's one of my favorites times of the day. The cold arena air with the even colder breeze coming from god knows where, the screaming of big men wanting to win, the random thuds and squeals and scrapes... everything about it helps center me, especially before rehearsal when I need to be most centered. I check the clock as the guys start filing off the ice and realize that their rehearsal is over, and mine can start as soon as the ice is cleared! I start lacing up my skates and grin to myself. I take back everything I just said. Skating, being on the ice... that's my favorite place in the world. Nothing relaxes and centers me like skating.
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xxxChosen Prompt: Are they afraid of death?
Prompt Response: Death has never scared me, not in the sense you would think anyways. I'm not afraid of pain, I've lived a life full of pain. I'm not afraid of permanence, for I believe in fate. When my time comes, there is no avoiding it. There is no fear of it. Fate will lead me to that point, and that is simply when you smile. You smile and you remember all the good times leading up to that moment, you remember the laughter and the joy and the heartache and the sorrow, and you smile because it was good even when it wasn't. You smile because you know you lived every moment of life to the fullest, and that's all you really can do. Don't waste your life fearing death. Embrace it. Live your life knowing that death is around the corner and could be any day now, so don't hesitate. Don't wait to live, don't reach the end and wish that you'd done more. Death is simply the end of the book, and a good author knows when to end it versus when that story isn't quite over, and a great author is the one who leaves you smiling when you finally close the book.
I understand those that fear death, I know that not everybody is able to let go of their illusion of control over their life, but when you do... it really opens up the world to a whole new freedom that I wish everybody could experience. Don't be afraid of the future, live in the now and when you get to the future, you'll have no regrets.
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xxxChosen Prompt: How do they handle a bad day?
Prompt Response: I blink slowly, squinting at the light. I'm laying on the floor, and I can feel Hero laying on top of me. Great. I fainted again. I slowly sit upright, the cold arena air giving me goosebumps. Hero remains on my legs, something I spent a very long time training him to do. As the world stops spinning and I start to feel more grounded, I give Hero a big hug. "What a good boy!! You're such a good boy Hero, you're the best." I start praising him, giving him lots of pets. He stands up and starts licking my face and I laugh before slowly standing up. "Alright boy, that's enough. Let's go home, I've had enough of this place." I pick up the skates that I'd thankfully already taken off before fainting and carefully, slowly make my way towards the exit. Hero whines, and I reassure him that it's okay. He hates when I stand up too soon, but I have to do it or I'd spend all day just sitting around waiting to feel better which would never happen.
The bus ride home goes smoothly, but by the time I get home I'm in an awful mood. I've fainted three times today, and it's still only mid afternoon. I'm getting so sick of this happening, and I just need a break. My joints are extra sore today from all the sitting and laying on the ground, and I am just over it. Today has been a bad day.
"Hero, bad day!" I call, and I hear his little feet scrabbling on the tile as he comes running into the room. He knows what bad day means, and Hero loves bad days. We have a bad day routine, and it's Hero's favorite kind of day because of that.
Together, we go outside and start walking in a direction we both know all too well. The walk is short, only about 5 minutes, so the perfect distance for my bad joints. As we walk, slowly Starbucks comes into view. Hero's tail wags as we walk through the door, and I quickly place our orders. I got my usual iced frappe, and of course the pup cup for Hero. We barely make it out the door before Hero can't wait any longer. We stop to sit at a picnic table as he digs in. His tail smacks into my leg over and over as he finishes his drink and looks up at me. I laugh at his messy face as he licks his lips clean, and then we're walking again. Our bad day routine isn't over yet!
Another 5 minutes or so past the Starbucks leads to the dog park, where Hero can play with his friends and not worry about me! Nothing makes me feel better like my sweet boy getting to have fun. As we enter the dog park, Hero waits patiently until we get to our usual spot. I take off his vest and let him loose, and the moment he's freed he takes off running. A couple of his doggy friends are here, and they all start running together. A smile splits across my face as I watch this, and I feel much better than I did even just 30 minutes ago. That dog is my whole world.
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