Then perhaps when you are able to believe me that you have done very noble, very kind things worthy of praise during your time here... I will feel comfortable giving you your share of a sedative.
I do not often enjoy watching lives extinguish before one is able to acknowledge their own light.
... no, I do not think that anything would be able to so easily steal away those feelings. It is the burden of living, and being able to make one's own choices.
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Even if lives cannot always be protected - that does not mean that their time spent living was a waste.
Or that it was not enriched by having you with them.
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For each person that you would offer it to -
Simply express how you've been glad to meet them.
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Okay. And - for me?
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Would you have done anything differently if you were given the chance?
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Might I ask why?
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What have I done that... mattered, in the end? Or made things better?
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If I might be so bold -
You have been my friend.
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...Thanks. Same goes to you, you know.
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[and then with a smile]
Then perhaps when you are able to believe me that you have done very noble, very kind things worthy of praise during your time here... I will feel comfortable giving you your share of a sedative.
I do not often enjoy watching lives extinguish before one is able to acknowledge their own light.
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That you have made a difference to those who are here?
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Even if I have, what has it mattered? The people here I care most about are all going to...
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And even if it was...
Do you believe that all life is meaningless then, if it is all doomed to end in death?
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[...]
Is it supposed to change how much it hurts? I didn't - again, there's not one person here I could protect. How am I supposed to be proud of that?
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Even if lives cannot always be protected - that does not mean that their time spent living was a waste.
Or that it was not enriched by having you with them.
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[She blinks several times, hesitating.]
I thought - this would all be different, if I tried hard enough. But it wasn't.
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... such a thing was not your responsibility, Emma.
It does not change that you have made things different, simply from being here. You have saved others by taking action, and learning what you have.