[She can't deny that...after all, protecting someone else...was in its own way selfish and willful. But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
...was it wrong? Something like that was a difficult question to answer. Because it's far morec complicated than that. Even so...]
No. I don't think so. But...it's true that these feelings, this way of seeing the world, definitely didn't come somewhere healthy.
People aren't meant to live alone. We want to be loved and love others...we need that kind of human connection. When we're denied that, when we're hurt or rejected by the world...isn't it natural, to cling onto the few people that give us that? That make us feel like...even for someone like us, there's someone who will hold our hand and not let go?
But...[She turns a little, reaches out to touch a hand to his cheek.] Because it comes from an unhealthy place, that way of thinking isn't good for us. When we say, 'I'd give up the world for this person. I'd sacrifice anyone and anything' isn't that just another way to keep rejecting the world and everyone else in it? Aren't we just afraid to put our trust into the people we care about in case they might leave us behind? If we keep doing that, then we won't just become unable to accept ourselves?
no subject
[She can't deny that...after all, protecting someone else...was in its own way selfish and willful. But that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
...was it wrong? Something like that was a difficult question to answer. Because it's far morec complicated than that. Even so...]
No. I don't think so. But...it's true that these feelings, this way of seeing the world, definitely didn't come somewhere healthy.
People aren't meant to live alone. We want to be loved and love others...we need that kind of human connection. When we're denied that, when we're hurt or rejected by the world...isn't it natural, to cling onto the few people that give us that? That make us feel like...even for someone like us, there's someone who will hold our hand and not let go?
But...[She turns a little, reaches out to touch a hand to his cheek.] Because it comes from an unhealthy place, that way of thinking isn't good for us. When we say, 'I'd give up the world for this person. I'd sacrifice anyone and anything' isn't that just another way to keep rejecting the world and everyone else in it? Aren't we just afraid to put our trust into the people we care about in case they might leave us behind? If we keep doing that, then we won't just become unable to accept ourselves?