Whoever told you that you're not your past self is full of it.
But it's not like...you're stuck doing exactly the same thing your past self did, either.
[ He sighs. James may handle concrete examples better, but that also means he has to describe his own concrete example to get his point across, too. Not that it's a secret, really. But it's still not fun. ]
I was a traitor too. Not on purpose, I didn't know it, but I still was. And I still did a lot of awful things. It's not something I get to just push away and pretend it's not real. But I get to decide if I still wanna do the awful things or not.
[ Which isn't, strictly speaking, totally true--or at least in his experience it's not, given his little murder plotting this past summer. But that's not going to help him make the point right now, is it? ]
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Whoever told you that you're not your past self is full of it.
But it's not like...you're stuck doing exactly the same thing your past self did, either.
[ He sighs. James may handle concrete examples better, but that also means he has to describe his own concrete example to get his point across, too. Not that it's a secret, really. But it's still not fun. ]
I was a traitor too. Not on purpose, I didn't know it, but I still was. And I still did a lot of awful things. It's not something I get to just push away and pretend it's not real. But I get to decide if I still wanna do the awful things or not.
[ Which isn't, strictly speaking, totally true--or at least in his experience it's not, given his little murder plotting this past summer. But that's not going to help him make the point right now, is it? ]