Your story creates an interesting character arc, @marysenpai. It is contemporary and yet explores a circumstance in which people across ages and cultures have found themselves.
Thank you for posting this story in the Ink Well community. We welcome you to our community of writers. One thing we ask of all who post here is that they support other writers. We hope to read more from you in the future.
I'm glad to know that it achieves the task of being a situation that people can identify with, my point was to create a fairly human character, to portray flaws and vague thoughts.
Thanks for the welcome, I've loved the community, I'll gladly be around often.