[He considers her answer, the weight of it and all its potential, letting silence hang between them for several moments as he takes another long sip of his tea, letting her words steep as the tea had done not so long ago.]
The influence of others certainly may have helped you along, but there has to have been some part of you that wished to change or allow such influence in the first place, even if you werenβt quite aware of it at the time. You would not have blossomed so if not.
[Which, to him, means the capacity for change was there all along, just as it had been within him, as well.]
You may recall that I am intimately familiar with such phenomenon. If you are not as strong as you have presented yourself to be, it is not a failing. Perhaps you expect the impossible from yourself. We have all taken wrong turnsβ you reminded me of that, once.
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The influence of others certainly may have helped you along, but there has to have been some part of you that wished to change or allow such influence in the first place, even if you werenβt quite aware of it at the time. You would not have blossomed so if not.
[Which, to him, means the capacity for change was there all along, just as it had been within him, as well.]
You may recall that I am intimately familiar with such phenomenon. If you are not as strong as you have presented yourself to be, it is not a failing. Perhaps you expect the impossible from yourself. We have all taken wrong turnsβ you reminded me of that, once.