trust me i figured the same thing to start with. that i couldn't be because surely i'd know by now. apparently it's not uncommon to find out this late especially for people who
well people like you and me who come from places where there's a certain expectation of what's normal. we don't go so far as arrangin marriages but there sure is an unspoken understandin that eventually you'll settle down with someone acceptable and have a kid or two. that's just part of bein a normal adult.
[But things are more complicated and diverse than that, and he's always known it logically. The part of him concerned with being normal and the part of him that looks at things as a scientist looks at things have always been a little at odds when the logical scientist knows that 'normal' has a much murkier definition than he'd like it to. Perhaps that's why he's always doubled down so hard on his own convictions. Perhaps that's why having to radically alter them in Ryslig has been such a trial for him, only mitigated by his insistence that his new normal is still serving the end goal of being good.]
i'm glad that it doesn't bother you. or that it doesn't bother you enough to want to stop associatin with me at any rate. you've been a good friend to me and i'd hate to lose that
it isn't as though it's changed me any. lord knows i don't feel different
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well people like you and me who come from places where there's a certain expectation of what's normal. we don't go so far as arrangin marriages but there sure is an unspoken understandin that eventually you'll settle down with someone acceptable and have a kid or two. that's just part of bein a normal adult.
[But things are more complicated and diverse than that, and he's always known it logically. The part of him concerned with being normal and the part of him that looks at things as a scientist looks at things have always been a little at odds when the logical scientist knows that 'normal' has a much murkier definition than he'd like it to. Perhaps that's why he's always doubled down so hard on his own convictions. Perhaps that's why having to radically alter them in Ryslig has been such a trial for him, only mitigated by his insistence that his new normal is still serving the end goal of being good.]
i'm glad that it doesn't bother you. or that it doesn't bother you enough to want to stop associatin with me at any rate. you've been a good friend to me and i'd hate to lose that
it isn't as though it's changed me any. lord knows i don't feel different