PUBLIC CHANNEL - DAY 75

[mylastchance]

I... Need help with something. But I can't be specific.


How can you help someone if you don't understand what the problem is?

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[mylastchance]

I've already done that. For days.

[forkedroad]

Hm.

I suppose in that case, the best way to be help is to be... generally supportive... even if you don't understand what's happening.

[mylastchance]

I've tried that too.

[He honestly feels like he's making things worse.]

Maybe it isn't possible.

[forkedroad]

No, no! It sounds far too simple to be impossible. Why, things far more baffling are certainly well beyond quite possible, by very slim margins! It's just unfamiliar, perhaps. Sometimes, when faced with challenges, we're tempted to throw our hands up and say it can't be done, I think.

But that thinking, right there—that thinking: that's the devil on your shoulder.

[mylastchance]

I don't want to give up, but I've run out of ideas to try!

[forkedroad]

Hmmm.

Dry spells are temporary. Inspiration nor epiphanies exist as constants. Frustration is natural, but understand that all things pass, including the nuances of your various complex inner turmoils.

[is she being a little cheeky? yes, but]

[mylastchance]

[It's so unexpected he almost laughs. It's a short moment, but it is there.]

I'll keep trying.

[He probably wouldn't be able to stop, even if he wanted to.]

... Thank you.

[forkedroad]

...Did that actually help?

[mylastchance]

It wasn't a solution.


But maybe that wasn't really what I was asking for.

[forkedroad]

[She laughs.]

Oh?? What do you suppose, then?

[mylastchance]

[Why does she always want him to say things directly?!]

If I knew I would have said.

[No he wouldn't have.]

[forkedroad]

[yea.........]

I somehow feel like that might not be true.

[mylastchance]

[What does he even say to that???]

...

Well. I should go I guess.

[forkedroad]

[She laughs, seeming amused by his solution to that READ]

Then, I earnestly wish you my well wishes and good luck.