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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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. ]