[...Normally this is about where he'd question if the anonymous individual here actually knows him somehow, or if they're just making a lot of assumptions; at the same time, the assumptions are...probably valid ones, given that apparently wherever this person is from, people there wouldn't be speaking like this at all to begin with. At least, not from the sound of it.
Huh.
It's weird, but you know what, he'll work with it.]
A couple of weeks before this place brought me here, back home, I wouldn't have understood at all. I probably would have yelled at you for it, and said it was barbaric and insisted that you needed to work to change things to make things better for everyone. I still think that things should change, don't misunderstand, because I don't agree with that way of operating, and if it's making you question it as well then I think that if you're ever in a position to institute change, you should. But sometimes things aren't that simple, and sometimes you have to accept things for what they are even if you don't like them, and sometimes you have to accept that other people's lives aren't yours. It took me too long to learn that back home and bad things happened as a result, and I want to avoid that happening again.
As for whether I wish misery on people or not, I guess I think that way because I've been the person left caring for someone that everyone else decided deserved to be hated. I resented it, and if I'm honest I hated them too, but just because I hate someone doesn't mean I want to see them suffer. I've been told that's strange and I accept that, but it's just the sort of person I've always been.
There's someone else I knew once, though...that's the one person I can think of where I don't understand why anyone would care about them. If they were brought here I wouldn't wish suffering on them, because I don't wish suffering on people in general, but they're dead back home and I sort of hope they stay that way. It sounds terrible to say that and I don't like it, but I think it's what they deserve after what they've done.
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Huh.
It's weird, but you know what, he'll work with it.]
A couple of weeks before this place brought me here, back home, I wouldn't have understood at all. I probably would have yelled at you for it, and said it was barbaric and insisted that you needed to work to change things to make things better for everyone. I still think that things should change, don't misunderstand, because I don't agree with that way of operating, and if it's making you question it as well then I think that if you're ever in a position to institute change, you should. But sometimes things aren't that simple, and sometimes you have to accept things for what they are even if you don't like them, and sometimes you have to accept that other people's lives aren't yours. It took me too long to learn that back home and bad things happened as a result, and I want to avoid that happening again.
As for whether I wish misery on people or not, I guess I think that way because I've been the person left caring for someone that everyone else decided deserved to be hated. I resented it, and if I'm honest I hated them too, but just because I hate someone doesn't mean I want to see them suffer. I've been told that's strange and I accept that, but it's just the sort of person I've always been.
There's someone else I knew once, though...that's the one person I can think of where I don't understand why anyone would care about them. If they were brought here I wouldn't wish suffering on them, because I don't wish suffering on people in general, but they're dead back home and I sort of hope they stay that way. It sounds terrible to say that and I don't like it, but I think it's what they deserve after what they've done.