Elsewhere

(Short Dialogue/Short Play)

Person #1: You need to be harder on yourself!
Person #2: I already am extremely hard on myself!!
Person #1: Doesn’t seem like it..
Person #2: You think your shallow perceptions understand feelings that you don’t even feel yourself! You are a total scumbag..
Person #1: But I’m telling you what you need to hear!
Person #2: It’s what your ego, who wants to control me, wants me to “hear”.
Person #1: I’m trying to help!
Person #2: You’re trying to control me!
Person #1: No!!
Person #2: You say to “be yourself”, to “have confidence”, yet when I have the confidence to honestly tell you what I feel as best, you become so infuriated with me for not doing stuff your way!!
Person #1: It’s because I don’t want you to make the wrong choices!!
Person #2: It’s because you want me to become someone that YOU see as fit instead of what I see as true!!
Person #1: It’s because I want you to make better decisions!
Person #2: Wow.. way to rephrase a point you already made while continuing to ignore points I’m honestly telling you.. You say you want me to be “honest”, yet such as right now, you can’t stand it when I speak honestly.
Person #1: But I’m telling you what I honestly think is best.
Person #2: And I’m telling you, that I tried it, and more of it, is NOT going to help!! It’s NOT!! Trust me!!
Person #1: Why on earth would I have trust for your delusional misguided and misinformed points of view that you feel a need to embrace!!?
Person #2: You narcissistic mainstream fuck!! You have it so fucking backwards—
Person #1: Stop cursing please..
Person #2: Huh ha!! Way to try to sidetrack the points I’m making by trying to direct focus towards a few bad words I said when getting expressive! You are something else..
Person #1: And you aren’t bettering yourself..
Person #2: You know what!? I’m done repeating and rephrasing all these thoughts and feelings that you have absolutely zero consideration for! You will never even try to open up to all the thoughtful valid points that I make. Why? Because they’re not mainstream enough, and that—
Person #1: It’s because they’re toxic..
Person #2: It’s because most people disagree with them and when people’s world view becomes challenged, a lot of internal discomfort arises that causes them to unconsciously fight back!!
Person #1: What are you even talking about!?
Person #2: Something you wouldn’t understand.

Person #2 walks away, and decides to apply his time and energy elsewhere..