Spinning Compass Network

This is somewhat long and personal and a rant. Sorry. You can skip until the bolded lines at the end if you don't want to read about personal details. I'm just trying to get these thoughts out.

These ideas started today when I noticed my shirt was on inside-out. At first I wasn't going to bother fixing it, but then I wondered why I didn't want to. It seemed like I was just discouraged from doing anything...I've never been able to do much of anything worthwhile anyway. But I decided that it was trivial and put the shirt on again the right way, and that made be feel a little more organized. My internal monologue had been arguing with itself the whole time, and when I did this, the next words were "There's no reason not to make things better."

I almost had to sit down when I thought about the sentence more closely. I've been sitting here with a lot of knowledge and a few things I can generally do, and I haven't done anything with them. The island isn't any better from me being here, just because I haven't thought about it. There's a lot of areas of our lives where things can just be made better with little effort.

Maybe it would make more sense if I gave an example. There's this red plastic cup I use to pour water into when I get thirsty, and I've been using it since only a few days after I got here, but today I went and got a green one because I prefer that color. I could have done that two months ago. There was no reason not to, and it didn't take any effort. I was just so used to being discouraged that it never occurred to me.

There really is no reason not to make things better, and for some reason, I haven't been doing that.

Besides the fog everyone's talking about, does anyone need help with anything? I have time on my hands and the island has areas for improvement.

When I said I wanted things to be a little cooler, this was not the kind of weather I was hoping for. How is everyone doing out there? Everyone found a safe place? And how the heck do we kick this mess off the island?

Boy, this place just gets you all turned around doesn't it?

Annie's already filled me in on the weirdness of the island but this fog is a bit... Oh, yeah, I'm Flynn by the way. Flynn Carsen.

Gas masks.

Uh, I think scanning this stuff is going to be a bit... difficult. I'm getting readings of organic matter where there is no organic matter, electromagnetic frequencies are all over the place, temperature spikes... It doesn't make sense.

And I heard Thane's voice