How Green Becomes Wood

"I think you're the only parent who has concerns about their child going into a career like that," Daizi lightly teased, "I want to talk to Alec and Xander more about their after-high school plans. I know they just did some assignment about it, I want to know more about what they wrote. Alec is interested in being a buisness owner."
 
"Really? Alec?" Sally asked in surprise. "I admire his gumption, but... he has never stuck me as being..." She fought to find the best polite word. "Business-minded," she finally decided on. "Xander, on the other hand, seems to be shockingly suited for it."
 
"Honestly, that's what I think too," Daizi admitted, "but I could see Alec being really talented at planning community events at a small buisness like a café or a bookstore. I just don't know if he's got the focus for the numbers side of a buisness, which is fine, because I certainly don't either. Alec would either need help or to really study hard."
 
"I'm certain that's it," Daizi said, "He loves working there and he's really attached to his uncle. And he's someone who kind of picks his future plans based primarily on what he's most interested in at that particular time. I think I've told you before he briefly wanted to be a non-erotic pole dancer."
 
Sally cackled. "Oh, my, I had forgotten about that! He has such an exotic mind. I look forward to seeing what he does end up doing with his life. I would not be surprised if he does not end up going through multiple different jobs."
 
"I'm certain he will," Daizi agreed, "but that's okay if it takes him time to learn what he wants, so long as he's smart about changing careers. It took Dark ages to find himself, and still ended up changing again after thinking he was settled. And he, honestly?" Her features lit up, "He's been so happy lately. It's been a long time since he's seemed this healthy."
 
"I engage in so many forms of scrying and fortune telling, and I still never predicted it," Daizi earnestly told Sally, without a hint of a joke in her voice, "If you went back five years, and told us he would choose it, I don't think either one of us would believe you. But at the same time... After how he was brought up, and with everything he's survived, he has this deep, unshakable desire to help children, so wanting to be there with his child every day, instead of sending her to day care, makes sense. And he's lost as many children as I have... But also, truthfully?" She leaned in towards Sally and dropped her voice low, "I think he's just been really enjoying getting to experience a childhood. He never really had one, so now he gets to experience it through her. It's a piece of himself nobody else has ever been able to give him."
 
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