| person | conversation text |
|---|---|
| friend | wow |
| me | what? |
| friend | It is hard to believe it has been more than a year. |
| me | Of what? |
| friend | Since we got started. |
| me | Yeah, I suppose it has been that long since the first post in this category. |
| friend | Yeah. Whatever happened to her? |
| me | To who? |
| friend | The hot babe. |
| me | You mean the girl that started it all? |
| friend | Yeah. |
| me | Well, last I checked, she still didn’t have a website of her own, and I still don’t know a lot about her (aside from the fact that she’s not ready for a relationship). |
| friend | Her loss man. |
| me | Please, let us try to be a little modest. |
| friend | No man. Face it, you now know how to wage the art of war to get a girl. |
| me | I feel like I’ve lost (or sold) a part of my soul to do so. |
| friend | Don’t sweat it. It isn’t like that life is so foreign to you, and it isn’t like they don’t do the same too. |
| me | Whatever. |
| friend | You still miss her, don’t you? |
| me | She’ll probably always be the most beautiful woman in the world to me. |
| friend | Well, that’s not a “definitely”, so I think you’ll be alright. Maybe your Christmas present will be someone better. |
| me | How ironic that this Christmas, the first time it happened (she was not the first time this happened) may be spending some time with me. |
| friend | Ooh, with another hot babe, eh? |
| me | We’ll see. It is not like I can tell the future or anything like that. |
| fortune teller | But I can. |
| me | I doubt it. I think it is just a trick, like Kakashi’s sharingan was. |
| Naruto | Hey, it isn’t nice to be giving away the secrets behind someone’s sharingan! |
| the fortunate teller | Now now my dear – don’t worry, I can foresee it won’t matter what he says. |
| Fun Dzu | Even if it did, you wouldn’t admit it – keeping up the deception of strength is important to defeat the morale of an enemy. |
| the fortune teller | I am not the enemy. |
| me | No. He is. |
| friend | Who, me? |
| me | Yes. You embody society and it causes so many problems. I have decided to use the foresight of the fortune teller and the wisdom of Fun Dzu to manipulate you to fit something I consider to be more in line with my notions of good than yours. |
| the fortune teller | And I have agreed. |
| Fun Dzu | And so have I. |
| friend | Ah come on man, I’m just your friend! What is it with you? |
| Naruto | What sort of person are you, that you would call your friend an enemy? |
| me | I’m not the sort of person that an idiot like you would understand. I’m a competent person. |
| Iruka | I don’t think you should be so hard on Naruto. |
| me | And why not? |
| Iruka | Because you realize that it is important for a person to have hope, don’t you? |
| me | Yes, I agree that hope is a wonderful thing. |
| friend | And it was a hope that panned out, right? |
| me | Well yes, at least for a while, but I had to come to grips with a bunch of stuff (much of which I’m still coming to terms with, especially some stuff I don’t like about myself). |
| friend | But that didn’t help you come to terms with her now did it? |
| me | No. I kept an eye out for others, but that didn’t always work out. |
| friend | But you did have some fun along the way, right? |
| me | Yes, but at a price. |
| my blog | It is a price you paid willingly. |
| me | But is it a price that I can safely advocate that everyone pay? |
| i | I still struggle with this. |
| myself | In many ways. |
| love | As do I. |
| friend | Go away “love”. I only want to talk about sex. |
| love | It doesn’t matter what you want to talk about. This is his place. |
| blog reader | But we contribute. |
| i | I have final authority over my content – greater authority than even my blog has over its content. |
| friend | Is the content yours or your blogs? |
| me | I wonder if I can hire Naruto to take out friend so I won’t have to deal with such stupid questions. |
| Naruto | I don’t get it, why was that a stupid question? |
| the net | To me, the answer is obvious. |
| love | And to me, it is obvious as well. |
| the net | And our answers differ. And I’m ok with that. |
| Naruto | I still don’t get it. Why was that a stupid question? |
| me | Forget it. I couldn’t get you to take out friend. |
| Naruto | Why not? |
| me | You’re part of him. |
| Naruto | Huh? |
| me | All the cultural creations that do not emanate from me – they are all part of society – and friend embodies the messages in society. You are his agent. |
| friend | But what about when you fragment off a part of yourself that is a cultural creation? Aren’t you then contributing to me? |
| me | As I said, you are the enemy, and I am manipulating you to be more in line with what I want you to be. |
| my blog | And you are doing this through a fragmented part of you that is not me. |
| me | Yes. |
| my blog | And what of your relationship with me? |
| me | It is far more important that I first have the appropriate relationship with me, and thus know what I am first. After that, the discussion about how you and I relate will take place. I must have my priorities straight. How can I know my own boundaries if I don’t know my core? So plunge my depths, I shall. |
| blog reader | And you’ll tell us about that? |
| me | If I fell like it. It is really none of your business though. I will tell you what I feel I need to tell you to advance my cause of changing society for the better. |
| blog reader | We are honored to be part of your noble cause. |
| friend | I still claim that I’m not the enemy! |