explosivecombat | NIETZSCHE; DEAD PHILOSOPHERS' INBOX

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NIETZSCHE; DEAD PHILOSOPHERS' INBOX

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

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...So you're complaining without expecting me to do anything about it.

Are we really going to do this right now?

It certainly looks that way.

It wasn't complaining, it was wishful thinking.

All right, then.

Don't get angry with me.

Do you want me to drop it or not?

You're reading as dismissive and it's...

I don't like it when I've done something to make you talk that way to me. Nothing I've said just now is worth that.

Tell me what you were trying to accomplish.

You say it's just expressing thoughts regardless of merit, but that's never all it is.

No. That's all it was. Sometimes I wish you would express feelings in a way that I'm used to recognizing in other people. It's not a passive-aggressive hint to change or a remark motivated by an ulterior design. The only thing I was out to accomplish was to let go of a moment of idle frustration.

That's all it is.

...Answer something for me, then.

Do you understand the difference in saying that to someone who won't change things for you, and someone who can't?

Of course I do. I never expec—

[WAIT HOLD THE PHONE SHE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE JUST PICKED UP WHAT YOU ARE PUTTING DOWN THERE NIETZSCHE.]

You mean you would if you could, but you can't, and that's what makes it unfair. It's not for lack of wanting; it's just an inevitable impossibility.

Something like that?