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>Anyone's who's even remotely in a similar situation as Drogo should read this book. But even then, few would act on it.
That's me desu. idk really know what to do. Even in the book, Drogo tries to leave. He even leaves at one point and finds that the world has moved past him. His old friends are different people, the spark is gone between him and his girl, the city is different from how he remembered it. He ceded his place in that world when he went to the fort and now there's no room for him there. I think he wanted to transfer to a different post but the higher up fucked him so he'd basically have to give up his rank and start all over from nothing or go back to the fort. The fort is familiar and comfy. It's a good resting place. If you want to leave and go somewhere else you have to suffer greatly and carve a wholly new place for yourself. It's easy to sit there and do nothing but plan your next move, especially if you tried and failed to turn things around in the past. I feel like it would take a very high degree of willpower and bullheadedness to wrench yourself free from that kind of situation. I don't really know what he could've done desu. He could leave but, once he gets past a certain age, where would he go? What could he do?

I remembered this excerpt when typing this up:
>Giovanni knew he could not stay within the walls of the fort all his life. Sooner or later he would have to make up his mind. Then the old habits caught him up again with the old rhythm and Drogo no longer thought of the others, of the comrades who had escaped in time, of his old friends grown rich and famous; he consoled himself with the sight of the officers who shared his exile; it never occurred to him that they might be the weak ones, the ones who had been beaten, the last people to take as an example.

Basically, to get out of a situation like that you have to be a strong person. Drogo is a weak person and he grew weaker as the years flew by. You can't ask a weak person to be strong, it's not in their nature. I feel like he was doomed from the start.

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