attorneyatlol

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I don't seem to use this journal for much more than getting a hold of other people or complaining about viruses anymore, but a conversation got me thinking about what it means to be positive. I know, it's a trite subject, right? 'The power of positive thinking'. It makes me think of a self-help seminar... But to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure I'd ever accomplish anything if I wasn't sure I would accomplish it. I don't know how or why I developed that mindset or if it was even a conscious decision, but I'm grateful that I have. I can't imagine what would have happened if I'd given up on certain goals...

Don't get me wrong. It's not always easy, and nobody can be positive all the time, but I think it beats the alternative in a lot of cases.

I guess this is why some people have me labeled as an optimist.

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(Dear God, Wright. Is it so difficult to understand? ...Or simply so difficult to believe?)

You still assume my sole motivation is to even the score?

Of course not, but I don't want you to feel like what you do for me is never going to be enough. It is.

(Perhaps, by your standards.)

I suppose it will have to be. (As truly paying you back in kind would require you to enter a place I pray you'll never have to occupy.)

I don't want to argue about this, Edgeworth. We shouldn't argue about this...

(I'm not the one intent on arguing the point.) Wright, I've given you nothing that hasn't been earned.

You seem pretty intent to me...

My views on the point are already established. You are the one who's intent on changing them.

I could say the same to you.

There's a distinct difference between defending a position and perpetuating an argument. (Though, I occasionally wonder whether you're aware of it.)

((OOC: Hypocrisy ftw?))

I'm not trying to perpetuate anything. I'm just trying to tell you how I feel.

(As if I wasn't already painfully aware.) And your feelings on the subject have been noted.

...Fine.

Wright... (Damn you, Wright. Why must you)

I've given you nothing I (didn't want to give) wasn't willing to give.

I know, Edgeworth. And I know you'd be willing to give more if you needed to.

(Anything- Everything- Whatever I needed to. Whatever I could.)

...Yes. If I needed to.

(How could I do any less?)

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...That's why it's enough.

(...God, Wright. Do you have any concept of)

Then you'll...settle for no less than (everything) what I'm capable of giving?

Would you?

I suppose it's a suitable compromise, then.

I suppose so.

You can be quite a formidable negotiator, when stirred to it.

I try my best.

...I'm glad we had this conversation.

I would have preferred to have control of my own words during such a discussion...but I suppose the discussion wouldn't have happened, had that been the case.

Yeah... I think I needed to hear some of those things, anyway. I mean... at least some of the stuff you said at the beginning.

(...You did.)

Indeed. I'll be willing to provide a reminder, if you're ever in need of one.

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