[ Kyle can be bad for changing the subject but for him, this isn't that. This is looking to someone else that is similar to him and why they did what they did. He doesn't meet many who remind him of those parts of himself but Charles does. ]
You and I are alike in that. Way different but alike. I went to college on a full ride football scholarship. Worked hard for it. Except when I left Roswell, it didn't feel the same. When the world made me slow down and really start thinking about things, I realized I wanted to help more than I wanted to be famous. Kept playing but actually focused on a major and went premed. By the time I couldn't play the way they wanted, I was already happy for that. Not to much the knee issues but for a reason to focus even more on medicine.
You know that isn't a bad thing though, right? Challenging yourself? I've found the times I pulled myself out of the worst was when I did.
[ When he left for college. Medical school. Returning to Roswell. Standing up to bigots, and dictators, and even his own sire. All of it had been challenging himself to put himself back onto the path he wanted to be on. The one he felt he had to be on. ]
I doubt you ever regretted making that choice either. I had a bit of a heritage in Roswell, not like yours or anything, and not just being a Valenti eventually wasn't enough. Only to find out that it meant a whole lot more in the grand scheme of another world.
[ His grandfather had helped the Oasians, as had his father and his uncle. Now Kyle did. It's what Valenti men did, they helped others. He just hadn't realized it when he'd put himself on that path. ]
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You and I are alike in that. Way different but alike. I went to college on a full ride football scholarship. Worked hard for it. Except when I left Roswell, it didn't feel the same. When the world made me slow down and really start thinking about things, I realized I wanted to help more than I wanted to be famous. Kept playing but actually focused on a major and went premed. By the time I couldn't play the way they wanted, I was already happy for that. Not to much the knee issues but for a reason to focus even more on medicine.
You know that isn't a bad thing though, right? Challenging yourself? I've found the times I pulled myself out of the worst was when I did.
[ When he left for college. Medical school. Returning to Roswell. Standing up to bigots, and dictators, and even his own sire. All of it had been challenging himself to put himself back onto the path he wanted to be on. The one he felt he had to be on. ]
I doubt you ever regretted making that choice either. I had a bit of a heritage in Roswell, not like yours or anything, and not just being a Valenti eventually wasn't enough. Only to find out that it meant a whole lot more in the grand scheme of another world.
[ His grandfather had helped the Oasians, as had his father and his uncle. Now Kyle did. It's what Valenti men did, they helped others. He just hadn't realized it when he'd put himself on that path. ]