Meme! From 12yrs_life

[control_issues]

If you had me alone, locked up in your house for twenty-four hours and I had to do whatever you wanted me to, what would you have me do?

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[rodlox.livejournal.com]

I'd let (encourage) you to talk about whatever you wanted.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I'd teach you to mediate.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

How you think that would work out?

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

With twenty-four hours, we could get somewhere.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Do I strike you as someone prone to meditate? Under any condition?

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

That's because you haven't tried before.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

You're just sitting around for hours. There's no appeal.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

You're not just sitting, you're thinking. Contemplating great mysteries and questions. And really, in my house, that's all there is to do. Though, we did finally get a TV.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

I don't have any great questions to contemplate.

I'm glad you got a TV. A house that big without a TV is creepy.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

There's a whole universe to contemplate, Reese.

We needed it for blackmail.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

It's there whether or not we contemplate it. I don't see the point.

Don't tell me that.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

To understand it. To find enlightenment. To be still.

Why?

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

You think you'll ever understand the universe?

Because unless I'm actively involved, it doesn't do either of us any good for me to know that kind of stuff.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I might. Or maybe the Universe will understand me. Or maybe we'll come to an understanding together.

Do you want to be actively involved?

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

That's nice for you and the universe.

We're partners, last time I checked.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I like to think so.

And partners protect each other. Some of the stuff I do, you shouldn't be involved in Reese.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Then don't slip up and tell me that you're blackmailing people. Except that you will slip up, because you tend to do this thing around me where you talk like I'm not there. I'm not sure if you know I'm there or not, but I am, and I hear you.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I always know you're there Reese. That's why I talk because you listen and you're there.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Then I might as well be there. If you're going to talk about it anyway.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

You intimidate Ted, you know.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Stern looking houseplants intimidate Ted.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think Ted could take a houseplant.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Even a cactus?

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

Ted's crafty.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

Then he's got no reason to be intimidated by me. Tell him to get over it.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

We'll see. Ted's not always good at getting over things.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

No one's good at getting over things. We deal anyway.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

We deal anyway.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

And part of your dealing is apparently talking to me. So I might as well be there for the things you'll talk about anyway.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

This could be pretty bad for you if I get caught. We get caught.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

You think it wouldn't be already?

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

It's different when it's just me.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

It hasn't been just you for awhile.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

Twelve years is a hard habit to break.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

You really want to talk to me about hard habits to break?

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I think it's something we could both give long talks about.

[notsopowerless.livejournal.com]

So let's agree not to do that, and you just deal with the fact that there are people around you who want in.

[12yrs-life.livejournal.com]

I'll work on that.