Action/Reaction - An Arknights Fanfic (Ongoing)

Chapter 29|Truth, Lies, & Fried Chicken.

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'What is the definition of insanity?'

This phrase. The IDEA behind it, it can be interpreted in a whole lot of different and various way's.

For instance: The idea behind expecting thing's to change, by just doing the same thing. The same song and dance, over and over again. Just because it worked last time!

Well.. The fact that it worked, doesn't mean it always does. 

....Lets put it in a different perspective.
Lets say, that you are forced into a position. One where you have to kill someone to save your own skin.

Most of the time when someone is being confronted at gunpoint (Or having a knife backed up against you), people will react by resisting. Sometimes failing, and sometimes succeeding.
If you manage to to get out any immediate danger, you still have someone on the loose who's out to hurt you. 

On the other hand you might have been able to get yourself free, and turn your weapon against your assailant. And in that single moment. One, single, moment. All the Adrenaline, Fear, and Panic comes crashing down all at you at once. Either causing you to accidently pull the trigger.. or be the one gunned down.

In the end, it all comes down to one ending, and one ending alone.
Someone dies

...Still don't get it?
Well... How about this.
I want you to visualise an empty glass, any will do.

Now....Another way of interpreting this phrase would be:

'Is someone clinging to their ideal's through thick and thin.'
Holding onto what you think is right and wrong for dear life, and staying with those ideal's and believe's untill the end.. 

Yet, if you decide to go down that path. It doesn't change the fact's...

That if you don't decide when or where you put the line in how far you'd go, what's to say you won't become just like your enemy's. You literaly become what you swore to destroy. But if you don't go over the line at some point, how will you ever progress? 

How far would you be willing to go, how far would anyone be willing to go for this 'Something' or 'Someone'. How much will you sacrifice, how much will you turn a blind eye to what's realy happening around you..

How long will you keep lying to yourself that it was 'The right thing to do'? 

And once you find yourself at your journey's end, looking back at what you had to do, all you had to sacrifice. All the doubt's and regrets that you've been carrying all this time. As it slowly begins filling up the glass you have been visualising, more and more.

Could you-

Could you say that, in the end..
It was all worth it?

...I know i wouldn't

...And that after a while, you find yourself sitting all alone in your living room, your bedroom, or even some random dark alley. Your hand's by your side or in your pockets, holding something tightly in the palm of your hand. At this point, your 'Glass' now filled up untill it's just at it's limit.