Give a dude some time to work up to being an idiot.
[But Dirk, it comes so naturally to you.]
Okay. Uh. I pictured it as two circles with a tangent line. And you pictured a balloon. You're trying to make yourself okay with balloons. What if... What if you didn't make yourself accept a balloon, and you didn't make me break my own circle. What if. We took out the tangent and then...
Would it be... He wants to be your friend, you know. He cares about you and just wants to be your friend. Would you consider getting to know him? And he gets to know you, too. You make your own indeterminate shape, and I stop living in a bizarre triangular conflict with my best friend and my brother because you can just decide for yourselves what kind of relationship you want instead of having all of your conversations mediated by me. You don't have to trust him, that isn't a requirement. Just... the flow of information becomes a thing determined by your relationship with each other, instead of mine with both of you.
Or that's stupid and I should restrict myself to a life of silence and drawing dickbutts.
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Give a dude some time to work up to being an idiot.
[But Dirk, it comes so naturally to you.]
Okay. Uh. I pictured it as two circles with a tangent line. And you pictured a balloon. You're trying to make yourself okay with balloons. What if... What if you didn't make yourself accept a balloon, and you didn't make me break my own circle. What if. We took out the tangent and then...
Would it be... He wants to be your friend, you know. He cares about you and just wants to be your friend. Would you consider getting to know him? And he gets to know you, too. You make your own indeterminate shape, and I stop living in a bizarre triangular conflict with my best friend and my brother because you can just decide for yourselves what kind of relationship you want instead of having all of your conversations mediated by me. You don't have to trust him, that isn't a requirement. Just... the flow of information becomes a thing determined by your relationship with each other, instead of mine with both of you.
Or that's stupid and I should restrict myself to a life of silence and drawing dickbutts.