Re: destiny/steph
[Blink, blink, blink.] I think she's a woman still trying to find her place in the world. She's smarter -- more brilliant -- than she realizes she is. She's wasting her potential [...] but then again I don't think any of us are really living up to our full potential. [Blink, pause.] She's sad. And she feels lonely. And she's trying to find ways to fix that. [...] She's kinder than she wants people to believe (though that's totally not objective, is it?). [Blink.] I don't know. I want to be her friend, I want to be there for her, but I don't know how and I don't know if she even wants that.
[Sigh. But she's learned about pushing, and maybe that it doesn't help all the time.] It's alright. Of course it's alright.