This was just a spur of the moment thing that I wrote. I thought of this when I read a little slogan on a picture of a SGC patch. I have tried again and again to find that website but I can't. So I'm not trying to steal any slogans or ideas, I just don't know who to give credit to...
"Why do you do this job?"
That was what that little girl was asking; SG-1's latest mission was to a planet where the natives were very curious about all of the SGC. What is my response? Most likely something about it being my duty to help my people. Who are my people? Normally I'd say the people of Langra... of Kelowna. But lately I haven't been sure, I don't share the same values are the Kelownans or anyone else on Langra. I believe in diplomacy, I believe that we can all work together, that's what the people of the SGC believe. So am I an Earthling at heart? Is there something that binds me more to Earth than my home planet? Earth...it stills sounds so weird when I say it. We're explorers from a planet called Earth.
So many questions, so few answers, Colonel O'Neill once told me life isn't fair, why can it never be unfair in my favor? Why can't I have the answers I'm looking for? There I go asking more questions...I've always wondered if curiosity is a gift or a curse. Sam says it's both.
Sam... she's always so proud of her job, her duty as an ambassador for Earth, Jack is too, yet he doesn't take it very seriously, but that's just his way. Teal'c...I have no clue about Teal'c, does he ever have a million questions, and never any answers? He's always full of pride, he radiates it, even with his blank expression, you can still feel it. I've never felt that proud, people say I always look happy, nobody has ever told me that I look proud. I am proud to work for the SGC, but I feel guilty about my own planet. But I've been told many times, that's not my fault.
Colonel O'Neill introduced me to a TV show called Star Trek. Vulcans act too much like Teal'c in my opinion, and Klingons are always kind of creepy looking, and always worried about honour, above anything else. Honour, I've always had some sort of honour, whether it was my high position on Kelowna, when I graduated from school, or when I worked on the Naquadria project. My biggest honour has to be joining SG-1, even when they didn't want me, now it seems like such a long time ago when the SGC was a place that was scary and isolated to me.
The little girl taps her foot impatiently and it brings me back to reality
"Why do you do this job?" she repeats
"I do it for pride, for honour..." I pause unsure on how to end; I glance at the rest of SG-1 who are talking to the village elders and I smile "for Earth."