i know what you feel when you say you dont want to share him. i have not advice for you at the moment, passive seems to be logical, though doesnt help much, but you dont want to choke them either. This sort of reminds me of Fountianhead. sorry to bring it up all the time, but i love the book.
"You know, Alvah, it would be terrible if I had a job I really wanted." "Well, of all things! Well, of all fool things to say! What do you mean?" "Just that. That it would be terrible to have a job I enjoyed and did not want to lose." "Why?" "Because I would have to depend on you, you're a wonderful person, Alvah, but not exactly inspiring and I don't think it would be beautiful to cringe before a whip in your hand-oh, don't protest, it would be such a polite little whip, and that's what would make it uglier. I would have to depend on our boss Gail- he's a great man, I'm sure, only I'd just as soon never set eyes on him." "Whatever gives you such a crazy attitude? When you know that Gail and I would do .anything for you, and I personally." "It's not only that, Alvah. It's not you alone. If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them-just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept."
.......
"I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvab, freedom." "You- call that freedom?" "To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." "What if you found something you wanted?" "I won't find it. I won't choose to see it. It would be part of that lovely world of yours. I'd have to share it with all the rest of you- and I wouldn't. You know, I never open again any great book I've read and loved. It hurts me to think of the other eyes that have read it and of what they were. Things like that can't be shared. Not With people like that." "Dominique, it's abnormal to feel so strongly about anything." ''That's the only way I can feel. Or not at all"
i have not advice for you at the moment, passive seems to be logical, though doesnt help much, but you dont want to choke them either.
This sort of reminds me of Fountianhead. sorry to bring it up all the time, but i love the book.
"You know, Alvah, it would be terrible if I had a job I really
wanted."
"Well, of all things! Well, of all fool things to say! What do
you mean?"
"Just that. That it would be terrible to have a job I enjoyed and did not want to lose."
"Why?"
"Because I would have to depend on you, you're a wonderful
person, Alvah, but not exactly inspiring and I don't think it would be beautiful to cringe before a whip in your hand-oh, don't protest, it would be such a polite little whip, and that's what would make it uglier. I would have to depend on our boss Gail- he's a great man, I'm sure, only I'd just as soon never set
eyes on him."
"Whatever gives you such a crazy attitude? When you know that Gail and I would do .anything for you, and I personally."
"It's not only that, Alvah. It's not you alone. If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them-just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept."
.......
"I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom,
Alvab, freedom."
"You- call that freedom?"
"To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
"What if you found something you wanted?"
"I won't find it. I won't choose to see it. It would be part of
that lovely world of yours. I'd have to share it with all the rest
of you- and I wouldn't. You know, I never open again any great
book I've read and loved. It hurts me to think of the other eyes
that have read it and of what they were. Things like that can't be
shared. Not With people like that."
"Dominique, it's abnormal to feel so strongly about anything."
''That's the only way I can feel. Or not at all"
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