I have seen some discussion concerning the people who are still in pods and it has led me to wondering. How would you handle someone you have unpleasant history with being here?
My history with many of these people is not so unpleasant that I would be unable to face them.
[as is the case for the vast majority of his clients. But...]
But. There is one whom I long to see, yet dread to see again. I don't know how our reunion would play when we would be... practically equals. We had never been, before.
I suppose that's another thing to consider. There's potentially a change in dynamic in any of the relationships we had with people we knew before here. It makes it more difficult to predict how things will unfold.
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[as is the case for the vast majority of his clients. But...]
But. There is one whom I long to see, yet dread to see again. I don't know how our reunion would play when we would be... practically equals. We had never been, before.
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I suppose that's another thing to consider. There's potentially a change in dynamic in any of the relationships we had with people we knew before here. It makes it more difficult to predict how things will unfold.
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[he types, erases the next part a few times, looking for his words, and the best way to put it without saying more than he intends-]
In my case, people by whom I have been used in the past.
I wouldn't avoid them, and I can at least be civil. But I've no reason to welcome them with fully open arms, either.