I'm being realistic. You know what it means to have the soul-sickness. [even if you haven't talked about it to him in any detail, that much is obvious. You're a clear case of it.] You don't come back form that easily. And I don't have the means to come back from it again, no matter how optimistically somebody's gonna look at me and wish it.
[You guys are all clouded by your affection for him.]