"I came back from being dead" isn't the same thing as "I can track someone down, by myself, in who-knows-how-many square miles 'cause I'm cute and plucky".
Don't worry, I know I'm not invincible. I know it better than most.
But for the sake of your budding social skills, I have to tell you, telling someone that what they're doing is stupid or dangerous is probably the worst way to get them to stop. It only ever made me more determined, and people have been trying for four years.
It's that thing again. The dismissing. That because of my age, my experiences don't count. They aren't serious. But you don't even know the experiences that you're brushing off.
Does it scare you to know that there's more to me than you realize? That I've been through things that would probably give you nightmares?
Just because you have a teenage brain doesn't mean awful things can't happen to you. And before you say anything, it doesn't mean you can't do big, consequential things - good or bad - either. It just means that when you do those things, you're gonna be really annoying about it.
More than normal to you, because you've earned it.
I'm just telling you, that if you try to stop one of the other people on this island from doing something stupid by explaining to them that it's stupid, it's not gonna work. That isn't limited to teenagers. That's basic human nature. You dismiss someone, they dismiss you right back.
Now there's a line that's been tried before. And it's almost never true. Do you really work alone? No help from anybody? Or is that why it took 7,000 tries to break the system?
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It's on record. You can't deny it.
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Don't worry, I know I'm not invincible. I know it better than most.
But for the sake of your budding social skills, I have to tell you, telling someone that what they're doing is stupid or dangerous is probably the worst way to get them to stop. It only ever made me more determined, and people have been trying for four years.
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You keep citing my age like it means so much. Not everyone matures at your designated rate, you know. I got past the spite stage years ago.
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Does it scare you to know that there's more to me than you realize? That I've been through things that would probably give you nightmares?
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And I don't think your experiences don't count.
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Just because you have a teenage brain doesn't mean awful things can't happen to you. And before you say anything, it doesn't mean you can't do big, consequential things - good or bad - either. It just means that when you do those things, you're gonna be really annoying about it.
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I'm just telling you, that if you try to stop one of the other people on this island from doing something stupid by explaining to them that it's stupid, it's not gonna work. That isn't limited to teenagers. That's basic human nature. You dismiss someone, they dismiss you right back.
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Seriously, you think I'd be having this circular-ass conversation if I had anything better to do right now?
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You could be sleeping. But you're not.
Because you like me. You're just so bad with people that you've got it all twisted around.
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You learn to cope.
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