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[tucky]

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[audio]

[tucky]

Really? You don't seem totally hard to me.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

What do you think it means, to be hard?

[audio]

[tucky]

Not empathetic. Not caring.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

I wouldn't say I'm without empathy or that I don't care. I suppose for me it means more of an acceptance of the gap between my ideals and what I have to do to live in the world as it is.

Do you think you're soft?

[audio]

[tucky]

I think I got softness and hardness. So I guess I'm both.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

That's the best way to be, soft enough to still care but hard enough to give yourself a little protection.

[audio]

[tucky]

Is that how you are?

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

I try. I can't always be the man I'd like to be but never for no reason.

[audio]

[tucky]

Who do you want to be?

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

It's less about who I'd like to be and more that I don't always like the choices I have to make but I became the person who had to make those sort of choices. Not really how I imagined myself when I was a kid.

Do you know who you'd like to be?

[audio]

[tucky]

I don't got it all figured out yet, but yeah, I think so. I got an idea.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

And who's that?

[audio]

[tucky]

Someone who listens but still has her own opinions. Someone who learns but still stays true to herself.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

I think you're doing a pretty good job. Especially if you can define what it means for you to be true to yourself. I've always found that the trickiest question.

[audio]

[tucky]

You ask a lot of people here and they'll say it means not graduating. But I don't believe that.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

Why would they think that?

[audio]

[tucky]

Because they see it as giving in, you know? Getting redeemed, being forced to change.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

There's a difference between being forced to change and choosing to change.

[audio]

[tucky]

Yeah, exactly. But lots of people think graduating's the first thing.

I always thought it was more about learning than changing, anyway.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

I think that change is a constant, the act of learning brings on change. The question lies in what exactly you're learning.

[audio]

[tucky]

You mean good stuff rather than bad stuff?

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

Good and bad are subjective matters. Maybe do you learn to be a fuller version of yourself or are you turned into someone else. At least I imagine that to be a debate.

[audio]

[tucky]

Yup. It's a debate I heard before.

I don't think it's either.

[audio]

[golden_eyes]

Neither do I.

I just have no idea of what it really is.

[audio]

[tucky]

Different for everybody.