It's often hard for us to see our successes through the veil of our failures.
[He'd do well to heed his own advice at times, but it's so much easier to see clearly when he's the one on the other side of the confessional. He wraps his hands around the cup, his fingers a bit stiff as they flex around it. They've been better; they've been worse, too.]
Tell me, do you congratulate yourself for every time she isn't harmed when she's with you? Or for each calamity the false gods would bring upon this city that doesn't see me dead? Do you measure your worth by every person who comes through the clinic seeking aid, and leaves with it? Or by those who use the trinkets we make, sustaining themselves with an invention that wouldn't exist without you?
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Date: 2017-02-19 09:38 am (UTC)[He'd do well to heed his own advice at times, but it's so much easier to see clearly when he's the one on the other side of the confessional. He wraps his hands around the cup, his fingers a bit stiff as they flex around it. They've been better; they've been worse, too.]
Tell me, do you congratulate yourself for every time she isn't harmed when she's with you? Or for each calamity the false gods would bring upon this city that doesn't see me dead? Do you measure your worth by every person who comes through the clinic seeking aid, and leaves with it? Or by those who use the trinkets we make, sustaining themselves with an invention that wouldn't exist without you?