I understand what you're saying, but I can't say I quite follow your logic. Hope can be cruel enough, it's true, but is it crueler than hopelessness? Than bleakest despair? I wouldn't say so.
Also, declaring something hopeless and its actually being hopeless aren't synonymous. People can lose heart long before a battle's actually decided. There's a terrifying seductiveness to accepting defeat when the path to success isn't obvious, even though giving up guarantees your failure. We lose sight of long-term reward in exchange for escaping short-term effort and pain, as though slowly withering away amidst the dust of our forsaken dreams is preferable to the ache of uncertainty or even the sudden sharp pain of reaching a definitive dead end.
We also sometimes don't see as much from our own perspective as others can see from theirs. You two acted too much like you were already a couple for me to believe there's actually nothing there. The signs weren't just on your end. Geralt doesn't strike me as a man who'd keep anyone's company unless they meant the world to him.
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Date: 2021-01-15 12:21 pm (UTC)I understand what you're saying, but I can't say I quite follow your logic. Hope can be cruel enough, it's true, but is it crueler than hopelessness? Than bleakest despair? I wouldn't say so.
Also, declaring something hopeless and its actually being hopeless aren't synonymous. People can lose heart long before a battle's actually decided. There's a terrifying seductiveness to accepting defeat when the path to success isn't obvious, even though giving up guarantees your failure. We lose sight of long-term reward in exchange for escaping short-term effort and pain, as though slowly withering away amidst the dust of our forsaken dreams is preferable to the ache of uncertainty or even the sudden sharp pain of reaching a definitive dead end.
We also sometimes don't see as much from our own perspective as others can see from theirs. You two acted too much like you were already a couple for me to believe there's actually nothing there. The signs weren't just on your end. Geralt doesn't strike me as a man who'd keep anyone's company unless they meant the world to him.