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[dutyderelict]

Thing about this network is, it does exactly what all diaries and journals do: provides blank space for people to put their bitching and whining and woe-is-mes

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[cavallorampante]

It's a little ironic, though, you know?

[dutyderelict]

Which part?

[cavallorampante]

Your entire entry unwittingly ending up an offering to our ticking friend.

[dutyderelict]

Unwittingly? Think again. I wasn't complaining, just stating some facts.

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[cavallorampante]

Seems that considering others' entries a 'pain in the ass' isn't quite fact -- the only fact is that we ought to give them a hand when they need us, right?

[cavallorampante]

...Or is that considered naive here.

[dutyderelict]

... Sounds pretty naive to me. But you're probably not alone in that.

Thing is, why are we indebted to help them? They going to pay for it?

[cavallorampante]

Times are hard for dreamers.

Seems more a duty and a pleasure to help out than anything like being a slave to the miserable. If nothing else, less agony spread across the blank page sounds good, huh?

[dutyderelict]

But not helping out isn't the same as being a slave to the miserable. You're a little dramatic, huh?

[cavallorampante]

Ah... didn't quite mean to toss my argument into the mud there.

[dutyderelict]

Nah. I get it. You're an idealist. Too bad you're stuck in the City, but again, I think there's a lot of your breed around.

[cavallorampante]

I'd say just an optimist, nothing much deeper. I assume I'm talking to a realist.

[dutyderelict]

Realist sounds nicer than pessimist, let's go with that.

[cavallorampante]

Hahaha! As you say.

[dutyderelict]

From the realist to the optimist: good luck keeping up those spirits.

[cavallorampante]

Optimist to realist: here's to pages staying happily blank.