... I see. I would say something, then, but... you don't need me to tell you to take care which fires you allow to catch, do you?
[ eternal love and loyalty, but is it unchanging, unaffected by the passage of time? it is so easy to make declarations like that, thinking oneself immune to the world they exist in. ]
You need not answer this question if you do not wish to. But if you burn all the way through, or the one you've devoted yourself to no longer deserves your consideration ... what do you see yourself doing in that circumstance?
That depends on the individual, does it not? What I say is deserving, what you say is deserving, what someone else says is...
Perhaps, if you were to ask me what it is at its simplest ... perhaps it might be when a person betrays their very self.
[ when a person has changed from who they were, irrevocably and irreconcilably. when they are no longer the person who'd merited that kind of loyalty, and the person who had no longer exists...
a person can fall from grace, a person can change for the worse, but there is a line to be crossed. past that rubicon, where recognition no longer holds and the face staring back from the mirror belongs to another, and there's no coming back from it. ]
When a person betrays their very self… Is it possible to do something like that deliberately? I’ve spent a long, long time fighting myself and I’ve never won even once.
[ A hundred years and then some. ]
That’s to say it’s not easy, in my experience, to change myself - not in big ways. I can’t really see how someone could change so much by choice. It sounds impossible to me, honestly.
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[ eternal love and loyalty, but is it unchanging, unaffected by the passage of time? it is so easy to make declarations like that, thinking oneself immune to the world they exist in. ]
You need not answer this question if you do not wish to. But if you burn all the way through, or the one you've devoted yourself to no longer deserves your consideration ... what do you see yourself doing in that circumstance?
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What... determines when someone is no longer deserving?
[ He'll always be devoted to his important people, he thinks. Not because of what they do, but because... they exist as themselves. ]
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Perhaps, if you were to ask me what it is at its simplest ... perhaps it might be when a person betrays their very self.
[ when a person has changed from who they were, irrevocably and irreconcilably. when they are no longer the person who'd merited that kind of loyalty, and the person who had no longer exists...
a person can fall from grace, a person can change for the worse, but there is a line to be crossed. past that rubicon, where recognition no longer holds and the face staring back from the mirror belongs to another, and there's no coming back from it. ]
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[ A hundred years and then some. ]
That’s to say it’s not easy, in my experience, to change myself - not in big ways. I can’t really see how someone could change so much by choice. It sounds impossible to me, honestly.
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[ fighting yourself, is it... ]
But whoever said it was by choice, or that it was deliberate? Whoever said that they did so knowingly?