[ She used it as a thought exercise in prison, mostly. Rote memorization of a pattern was pretty useful at that point. ] It's more fun to do the actual work, though. A lot more fun. And it takes more time.
[ For him, maybe, but she's entirely used to feeling bad. Feeling bad was kind of the norm, really, to the point where having the ability to make her feel bad wasn't any kind of threat at all. So the ability to make her feel good, that became the rarity, and subsequently in some situations a threat. That's changed, finally, here with him, but it's still a slow process of realization that it's going to stay changed. That sometimes people just want you to feel good without questionable ulterior motives. And people create the issues, yes. But up until him she hadn't really found anything that bridged the gap. (Hadn't really gone looking, either, but.) Objects don't hold almost any meaning to her. ]
You and I had very different approaches to academic life. [ Or indeed probably life in general, but hey.
Well, he does have a fair amount of helpful instinct in terms of 'How to Keep an Empath Happy: For Dummies', &c. Being content with things yourself is definitely one of those aspects, but really, you keep an empath happy the way you'd keep anyone else happy - by making them happy. Not a difficult concept. More effort in the execution, but what isn't like that? ]
Academically it's better to get it over as fast as possible, yeah, sure. [ Mostly life in general really.
Things worth working for, and so forth? And at first, the amount of happiness that came with being with him had seemed scary to her. Because the problem with happiness is that it can always, always be taken away. It had taken her a little while to realize that nobody was trying to take this away from her. That the only threat to it was their own issues, and she could work with that. ]
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[ For him, maybe, but she's entirely used to feeling bad. Feeling bad was kind of the norm, really, to the point where having the ability to make her feel bad wasn't any kind of threat at all. So the ability to make her feel good, that became the rarity, and subsequently in some situations a threat. That's changed, finally, here with him, but it's still a slow process of realization that it's going to stay changed. That sometimes people just want you to feel good without questionable ulterior motives. And people create the issues, yes. But up until him she hadn't really found anything that bridged the gap. (Hadn't really gone looking, either, but.) Objects don't hold almost any meaning to her. ]
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Well, he does have a fair amount of helpful instinct in terms of 'How to Keep an Empath Happy: For Dummies', &c. Being content with things yourself is definitely one of those aspects, but really, you keep an empath happy the way you'd keep anyone else happy - by making them happy. Not a difficult concept. More effort in the execution, but what isn't like that? ]
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Things worth working for, and so forth? And at first, the amount of happiness that came with being with him had seemed scary to her. Because the problem with happiness is that it can always, always be taken away. It had taken her a little while to realize that nobody was trying to take this away from her. That the only threat to it was their own issues, and she could work with that. ]