I want to talk about what happened and how you are doing, really. Though I'm suspecting it's not well, if you're content to pretend like it never happened.
[Oh, that's right, she knows what he's going through, as it were. But that doesn't mean either of them has to.]
No, I need to be strong for people like us, to find something that might cure us. -Aah, I really shouldn't have taken the day off, I'll get back to work tonight, so you don't need to worry!
It's nothing more than a disease of the mind. One we are all born with which some have the natural ability to overthrow. Others might need a bit of help, if only we knew what that was. But modern science has found medications for the treatment of similar illnesses, I think that proves there's hope!
I wasn't born this way. [There's a flicker of something, but she shuts her eyes to it before opening them once again.]
Not that it matters, anymore, but what we have aren't quite illnesses, not like those. [She's thought of her compulsions as a parasite, and still does from time to time, but she's been coming a bit more to terms with it.]
Unless you intend to cure what it means to be a person. Nobody's perfect, nobody should be perfect, everyone has bad qualities to them, what matters is what we do to recognise, hold ourselves accountable to, and manage them.
That is precisely the reason I say it's inherently bred into people. For yourself, perhaps it lay dormant until recently, as it does for many, but that it was possible at all means there must have been something to latch onto. There cannot exist something from nothing. As I see it, the thought that it's simply a fact of being human is a problem, it excuses such behaviours and allows us to think no attention needs to be brought to it. Only it very much does, such evils have no need to exist, nor any purpose nor place in the world. It can be fixed, and it must.
"There cannot exist something from nothing." That is such an Earth-born human notion. Haven't you seen enough in the place we've both been to know that that simply isn't true?
[She's heard his words and the idea that that part of her may have always been there would have made her far more uncomfortable if he didn't come to that conclusion based on something so patently untrue.
ffs henry you were in the drabwurld for like over a year.]
For me, no, those feelings were never there, not like that. That's why they were able to be born in the first place.
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But that's beside the point, and you're conflating issues. Awareness is not condonation; knowing that there is darkness in others doesn't mean that everyone will be complacent with it. There are people who live to fight against evil everyday, but that thinking goes too far.
[Henry, you're human and yet so bad at people why is this.]
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Alright then, I suppose... What did you want to talk about?
2 bad bruh!!!
IGNORANCE IS BLISS
NAH
[She knows the answer even as she asks it, but she cannot help herself.]
And don't apologise, I asked you to, remember.
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[He just needs to be stronger and overcome that part of himself until it doesn't exist at all anymore.
Even if she asked him to. But the reason she asked him was because it was so plain to see that he wanted to!]
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[That has literally never worked for you henry omfg.] You're just going snap and in a very big, very bad way. Don't do that to yourself.
Take it from someone else who knows.
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No, I need to be strong for people like us, to find something that might cure us. -Aah, I really shouldn't have taken the day off, I'll get back to work tonight, so you don't need to worry!
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[She can't blame him for trying, not too much, anyway. She did, after all, and look where it's gotten both of them.]
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Not that it matters, anymore, but what we have aren't quite illnesses, not like those. [She's thought of her compulsions as a parasite, and still does from time to time, but she's been coming a bit more to terms with it.]
Unless you intend to cure what it means to be a person. Nobody's perfect, nobody should be perfect, everyone has bad qualities to them, what matters is what we do to recognise, hold ourselves accountable to, and manage them.
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[She's heard his words and the idea that that part of her may have always been there would have made her far more uncomfortable if he didn't come to that conclusion based on something so patently untrue.
ffs henry you were in the drabwurld for like over a year.]
For me, no, those feelings were never there, not like that. That's why they were able to be born in the first place.
[2 pure sry]
But that's beside the point, and you're conflating issues. Awareness is not
condonation; knowing that there is darkness in others doesn't mean that everyone will be complacent with it. There are people who live to fight against evil everyday, but that thinking goes too far.
[Henry, you're human and yet so bad at people why is this.]