Still. "Not quite," he says, even. "But that's getting at my point. You're still hung up on what it means that you're not taking orders from them, when what it means is that you're not taking orders from them. And in the meantime you resent anyone else with duties that don't revolve around you. I wish you'd just -- go on and take the bleeding punch already. It's far more efficient than tiptoeing around your resentment. -- and not your sadness, or your grief, but your resentment. Or sulking."
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Still. "Not quite," he says, even. "But that's getting at my point. You're still hung up on what it means that you're not taking orders from them, when what it means is that you're not taking orders from them. And in the meantime you resent anyone else with duties that don't revolve around you. I wish you'd just -- go on and take the bleeding punch already. It's far more efficient than tiptoeing around your resentment. -- and not your sadness, or your grief, but your resentment. Or sulking."