You're here to change something. Several somethings. That starts with opining over what could be.
This is the first time in his life Malcolm has had anyone tell him that who he is is okay. Who he is right now is worth knowing, worth caring about. The person everyone else in his life has always looked at as broken.
Your emotional settings might be turn to the low end of the expression spectrum, but his are at the other extreme. He's opened his internal pandora's box, he's given himself the possibility that the people who love him here are right and that he doesn't have to fix anything to be worth caring about. Imperfect analogy it might be, but everything ugly and unsure is coming out right now--he doesn't know how to be himself and make others comfortable, because he's only ever tried to do one or the other. He has to figure out who he is before anything beautiful in anyone else's eyes can get free. I don't think he's right. I also don't think he's wrong. And I think you're biased.
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This is the first time in his life Malcolm has had anyone tell him that who he is is okay. Who he is right now is worth knowing, worth caring about. The person everyone else in his life has always looked at as broken.
Your emotional settings might be turn to the low end of the expression spectrum, but his are at the other extreme. He's opened his internal pandora's box, he's given himself the possibility that the people who love him here are right and that he doesn't have to fix anything to be worth caring about. Imperfect analogy it might be, but everything ugly and unsure is coming out right now--he doesn't know how to be himself and make others comfortable, because he's only ever tried to do one or the other. He has to figure out who he is before anything beautiful in anyone else's eyes can get free. I don't think he's right. I also don't think he's wrong. And I think you're biased.