[Well. He watches all that pour onto his screen and man, is he glad this is a text conversation because it's a lot. Time to really, really carefully choose his words here.]
I don't disagree with you.
[All those pages in the Journal about never letting anyone tell you you weren't good enough, about how shutting out other people was foolish -- he wouldn't have written them if he hadn't meant them. The problem is he's already let Elsa in so far. The other shoe has to drop eventually, doesn't it?]
You misunderstand. It's not that I don't think I deserve happiness. But I have never made friends easily. In all my life I've had less than I could count on one hand, and now in the past year and a half I've somehow managed to make twice that and I barely even understand how I did it.
[Here it is. Finally, Stanford Pines being straight about something, a feat notoriously hard for him for a variety of reasons.]
I already fully expect to do something by accident to make that number decrease, because that's just what I tend to do. I'm not going to make it happen faster on purpose.
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I don't disagree with you.
[All those pages in the Journal about never letting anyone tell you you weren't good enough, about how shutting out other people was foolish -- he wouldn't have written them if he hadn't meant them. The problem is he's already let Elsa in so far. The other shoe has to drop eventually, doesn't it?]
You misunderstand. It's not that I don't think I deserve happiness. But I have never made friends easily. In all my life I've had less than I could count on one hand, and now in the past year and a half I've somehow managed to make twice that and I barely even understand how I did it.
[Here it is. Finally, Stanford Pines being straight about something, a feat notoriously hard for him for a variety of reasons.]
I already fully expect to do something by accident to make that number decrease, because that's just what I tend to do. I'm not going to make it happen faster on purpose.