Of Struggles and Duties.

Chapter 2: Neglected Letters

I realized I didn't have the time to read them right now. I promised myself yesterday that I would visit Estonia, but if I visited Estonia today, how would I visit Lithuania tomorrow? The tiredness from yesterday didn't do me any favors and now I was stuck deciding how I'll organize these visits. I only have a spare week to waste. I was also half-asleep due to Riga waking me up so early, but for once I have to admit she did me a favor since getting up for a visit at late noon or early afternoon would be even worse as I doubt I would catch any buses by that time. I wish I wasn't so physically young since then I wouldn't have to worry about buses at all. I could always ask Riga to give me a lift but I doubt she would agree to give me rides from the Capital she personified to Vilnius or Tallinn as they were all but close to her city. I think I need to reschedule how I go about this.

I have seven days to visit both Vilnius and Tallinn. If I travel to Tallinn today via bus, I would possibly make it there in around 4 and a half hours which would mean if I took a bus at noon (if there was one), I'd be there by late afternoon or early evening. Then again, I have to take traffic into account and that'd be around 5 and a half hours in my case. That would mean I would be able to visit Estonia for two days before I had to leave for Vilnius to visit Lithuania. That trip would be twice as long if I count in the traffic which would be nine to eleven hours. That would also mean I'd be visiting Lithuania for two days as well and my return back to Riga on the seventh day would take around four hours, four and a half if I stretch it to make it more believable.

That means I would spend today travelling and making it to Tallinn fairly normal considering the time, next two days would be at Estonia's place if he actually wants me around (I like to surprise visit him specifically), then it would take until mid to late evening to make it to Vilnius to visit Lithuania, sadly I can't surprise visit Lithuania as he usually has a lot of plans with Poland despite their more than few cases of historical tension sometimes (How is he my brother again if I have to make all the plans?) I would stay for two days at Lithuania's place if he doesn't have some plans already and on the last day of the week I would return to Riga. 

I was only done overthinking the trip details and my head already hurts, but I have to overthink and manage my time to the hours as I wasn't a mere human who could pull off a few mistakes and get back on their feet, sadly I was a nation who's small mistake could be my entire country's crisis as I basically was that country...just as a person. Everything I do mirrored back on the land and country. If I somehow got along with Nepal (which is near impossible, they're in Asia) then my government and the head of international affairs (I don't care near enough to remember what goes in Saeima to know every detail) would reflect that in a very accurate and disturbing light. It's too much sometimes. Personally I would love to get along with Russia, but due to how my people feel about him in general, I am supposed to be scared of him and I have to keep my distance from him as well and my people are also the people who trust America a lot politically while I, personally, would prefer to not interact with him too much, but I do understand his large impact on a Global scale, yet I couldn't care less, but I have to care as not caring would lead to a lot of issues for my government, land and people in general. 

Oh no! I was so distracted by my thoughts I forgot to get ready for my upcoming visits. I checked the time and it was currently just turning ten o'clock in the morning to which I gave a sigh of relief as I can get into my thoughts for so long that more than an hour can pass while I just sit and think the whole time. I knew there was going to be a bus leaving for Tallinn in around an hour and a half. I had less than an hour to get ready as I did not want to be late under any circumstances. I spent way too much time overthinking this whole week and I wasn't about to blow it up because I got lost in my other thoughts. I quickly opened my wardrobe and skimmed through some of my clothes and threw the ones I would be taking with me on the bed while the ones I decided not to take were hastily thrown in random sections of my wardrobe. I know I will later regret that decision, but it was in a haste and I wanted to actually visit the two countries I considered my brothers. I'm fairly certain Estonia's not my real brother since he is linguistically related to Finland and Hungary, but sometimes I wondered if I was actually related to Lithuania despite some similarities in our languages. I shook those thoughts off. I had no time to think. I had to get my travelling bag ready and get appropriately dressed as I really didn't want to leave in my flag colored pajamas. Lastly I also had to find my wallet and notify Riga via text or phone call that I would be gone for the week and would be outside my borders. It was so much work in such little notice, but I think I can pull it off just fine.

(OMG!!! I actually updated in under a year, huzzah!)

(Fun fact: I'm still trying to decide if Latvia's gonna be a ''heroine'' or a ''hero''. :P)