... 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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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.