I think more than anything, I just wanna know if me and my family get home okay. [He takes in and lets out a breath. Majima pretty much already knows this part.] I really don't want my daughter to grow up not knowin' the rest of her family, but...if I have to just. Deal with the fact that we're gonna have to live where we live and that's that, I guess I'd just like to know.
But, well. If I do a good job here, that ain't gonna be a concern, so. Hopefully all'a this works out. So...yeah, at the end of the day, I guess I'd just wanna know if things here on Hathaway are gonna work out okay. [Even the more altruistic among them like him are here for some kinda incentive, so he imagines...pretty much everybody would wanna know if things are gonna work out well enough for them to Get said incentive.]
Do you think jealousy has value in driving people to improve themselves, or is it a purely negative emotion?
[That gets another little grimace out of him.]
I think jealousy's...pretty bad. [And since this is supposed to be about sharing...he takes in a breath.] I spent a pretty long time growing up being jealous'a my sister, 'cause she was good at everything and I...wasn't. But it didn't make me push myself to do better, it just made me. Angry. It just made me have a chip on my shoulder. It wasn't 'til I really talked to her about it and figured out I didn't have to feel that way that I really started. Improvin' myself.
[Yeah, that got kinda personal. Huh. He scratches his cheek.]
So, uh. I think y'can use people as a goal to fix yourself. But if you're actually jealous of them, it'll just. Twist you up inside and it'll turn into resentment when it really doesn't have to. And you're not gonna improve yourself that way.
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I think more than anything, I just wanna know if me and my family get home okay. [He takes in and lets out a breath. Majima pretty much already knows this part.] I really don't want my daughter to grow up not knowin' the rest of her family, but...if I have to just. Deal with the fact that we're gonna have to live where we live and that's that, I guess I'd just like to know.
But, well. If I do a good job here, that ain't gonna be a concern, so. Hopefully all'a this works out. So...yeah, at the end of the day, I guess I'd just wanna know if things here on Hathaway are gonna work out okay. [Even the more altruistic among them like him are here for some kinda incentive, so he imagines...pretty much everybody would wanna know if things are gonna work out well enough for them to Get said incentive.]
Do you think jealousy has value in driving people to improve themselves, or is it a purely negative emotion?
[That gets another little grimace out of him.]
I think jealousy's...pretty bad. [And since this is supposed to be about sharing...he takes in a breath.] I spent a pretty long time growing up being jealous'a my sister, 'cause she was good at everything and I...wasn't. But it didn't make me push myself to do better, it just made me. Angry. It just made me have a chip on my shoulder. It wasn't 'til I really talked to her about it and figured out I didn't have to feel that way that I really started. Improvin' myself.
[Yeah, that got kinda personal. Huh. He scratches his cheek.]
So, uh. I think y'can use people as a goal to fix yourself. But if you're actually jealous of them, it'll just. Twist you up inside and it'll turn into resentment when it really doesn't have to. And you're not gonna improve yourself that way.