Conversations with the self

Intellectual self: I really should give Tubbi a call today to see what he is up to. I haven't talked to him in a while.

Pragmatic self: Oh no, not that again! Why don't you just leave him alone. He doesn't want to be our friend.

Intellectual self: What are you talking about? You don't know that for sure! Your so negative about people.

Pragmatic self: Oh really, maybe your just blind and over-optimistic. The man snubbed you on your birthday, he never comes to see you, and every time you try to get him to go do something with you he makes up lame excuses.

Intellectual self: Well, we have been really hard on him. For instance, we were more than cruel to him this past summer by teasing him. We kept on harassing him without mercy. He has a right to be mad about that.

Cruel self: Ha ha!! Yeah we really did lay into him. But, he set himself up for it the dumb ass.

Pragmatic self: First off, he has no right to hold a grudge against us for anything! We stood by him when no one else would, and we have helped him out of binds more times than we can count. Second, if he does hold something against us then that is clearly a sign that he is not worth having as a friend. Lastly, thanks to religion boy over there we apologized to him for letting cruel self out of the cage.

Religious self: If he does have a grudge we should forgive him for it an move on. We don't need to get pulled into his hatred.

Cruel self: *scoff*
Pragmatic self: *rolls his eyes*

Intellectual self: Point well made RS. With that in mind perhaps we should do something nice for him and show him that we still care for him.

Pragmatic self: Bah!! Have you heard anything I have said! Wake up and smell the burning house!! He doesn't want to be our friend. How many times have we gone over there to make amends? How many nice things have we done for him without him ever reciprocating? He is using us and will continue to do so as long as we let him! Sure, lets forgive him for our sake, but we need to just let him go and move on!!

Intellectual self: *grumble grumble* What about all the fun times we have had in the past? Don't you want to try to get that back?

Pragmatic self: We can't live in the past. Some people are left in our past because they have no place in our future. Tubbi has no place and you all know it.

Cruel self: Fuck him!! Lets go slash his tires!!

Religious self: Lord have mercy on me!!

Intellectual self: Sure, that will make things better. He'll never guess it was us that slashed his tires. *rolls eyes*

Pragmatic self: No, we will just have to remain distant from him. He wants us to play paintball this weekend, we will go and be civil to him, but that is all. We will shoot him down like everyone else we play against.

Cruel self: Hee hee I'm gonna light him up!! Full auto!! No Mercy!!

Intellectual self: No your not!! PS is right, no special treatment either way. Maybe he will see that and realize we are a true friend, maybe he'll apologize for the birthday thing!!

Pragmatic self: Ugh! Do you ever quit?