Nie odrzucaj miłosci; traktuj ją jak balast - lecz bądź sprawiedliwym.Miłość jest jedną z najsilniejszych ludzkich emocji, drugą jest nienawiść. Jeśli próbujesz kochać wszystkich, mniejszym uczuciem darzysz tych, którzy zasługują na twoją miłość. Nie możesz kochać wszystkich, śmieszne nawet sądzić, że możesz. Jeżeli kochasz wszystkich i wszystko - tracisz swoją naturalną zdolność dokonywania selekcji, stając się marnym znawcą charakterów i wartości. Jeżeli czegoś używa się zbyt swobodnie, traci swoje prawdziwe znaczenie. Powinieneś kochać mocno i bez granic tych, którzy na to zasługują.
I just had this awesome dream where Jim and Strickler kept having to work together (from Trollhunters) and eventually had to bring Barbara in for back up, and sometimes Toby was there too and Merida from Brave was also a person of interest, as was Vector from Despicable Me.
At one point Jim and Toby wanted to sneak into Strickler's hotel room but Strickler caught them and said "if you wanted my advice, all you had to do was ask. If you want to defeat the Broad family and take back the child (Merida was a lil 4 year old they were trying to rescue for all different reasons) than I suggest burning their plant to the ground. That will smoke them out, I believe." And they argued about how violent or necessary it was, but they went with Strickler's plan.
They were trying to open Strickler's safe so they could get at his special matches, and Strickler kept repeating the hella complicated pattern code, but Jim kept forgetting a key step.
Sidebar, but one of Strickler's nicknames in my dream was "Jade", and they'd been calling Strickler Jade mostly up to this point.
Jim got really frustrated at the lock and said "why dont you just do it, dad?!" And stomped off.
Then he realized he said DAD instead of JADE and he got suuuuuper embarrassed. Obv Strickler noticed. But he grabbed a plastic fork and resolved to stab him if he brought up the dad/jade thing.
They went and burned the plant. Then returned to the massive hotel where every person of interest was staying and tried to get the baby away from the family. The older members got the call their factory was burning and left Merida in the charge of the younger (but still like not also kids) Broad members.
There was a diverse, giant meeting of minds conference happening at the hotel. They had to dodge all of that while having their almost tug of war "save the kid!" With the others. They got her eventually.
But Jim still needed Strickler's help. They actually got caught on a mission to this dystopian type factory on accident. Like they werent supposed to be on mission yet, but the owners of the factory caught them while they were scoping the place out discreetly in Strickler's fancy car. Got implicated in both a kidnapping (that they witnessed with their own eyes as more kids kidnapping the workers and leaving behind boxes of something on a single wheelchair, which had blocked their exit) and worsening productivity (a higher crime to the despicable higher ups).
Also every time a character died they regenerated in a few hours. That's a pretty key thing to note here.
So they were captured. Brought to questioning.
Also important: I was shifting between a watchful third person pov and Jim's pov, so sometimes I was Jim and sometimes I was just watching. (Only once did I shift to Barbara, and that was when Jim was the one who died for the plan that night, while Strickler and Barbara carried it out. Barbara was helping Strickler stretch before the mission that had so far been a failure for 10 nights in a row, and he was sore from regenerating so often. They were talking and laughing against one of the giant train -ish metal storage units. Like theyd have down by the docks. She was mostly focused on the help, but 'helped herself ' to a good look at Strickler's backside while she did so, realized what she was thinking about a little guilty when they were here for a bigger reason, and snapped out of it. Strickler didn't quite see it but he hoped she would and they were both pretty happy about it overall)
In questioning they were at first together, then broken apart, then put together again. Jim and Strickler were trying to stick together so a rescue op later wouldn’t be as necessary. The whole moment of being forced to stop holding arms or something. It was good. Jim was silent in interrogation. Strickler made vague, unsettling jokes and threats and the questioners quickly threw them back into the one interrogation room, for the main boss to talk to them.
Strickler peeked out the blinds and grinned, slowly, and the main boss pushed him aside as he went to check the window. Strickler came to stand behind Jim, silently urged him to stand, and they backed toward the door. The boss was standing by the window in shock.
Hundreds of people on bicycles were overtaking the compound. In various shades of blues, yellows, greens, and one red man, Vector, who didn’t even like Strickler, yet came to his aid as the rest of them did, pedaling away, then scaling the building, rattling the doors, causing general mayhem. They were shown the door and released.
Strickler and Jim grinned and whooped once they were out. Strickler changed into khaki shorts and a purple Hawaiian shirt and green glasses with pineapples on them (see: Gravity Falls for the look) and celebrated with his friends that had come to wreck the place.
Their original purpose was achieved. But they realized there was something worse happening inside. Later the security was tighter and the beings they’d brought in to guard it were powerful. Most of his friends tailgated outside the gates and that’s where Jim found Strickler again.
He told him he needed his help to finish the job. The mission. Strickler changed back and agreed.
Each time they tried to sneak in over the toxic river or between the storage stacks, but once they got to the inner playground, they were stopped by the fearsome beings, killing them, forcing a regeneration.
Grims.
Dogs, of various shapes and sizes (the smallest was barely 8 inches tall, the largest was bigger than a mastiff or st. bernard, idk which is bigger) that bit you in the butt and dragged you backward, flinging you from this realm and into the regeneration state, where you always would awake just outside the compound’s gates.
They tried many different types of bait to get around it, but they couldn’t. They died each time. They eventually brought Barbara in (cue the scene described above, on a night she killed Jim before the mission as to try and be an in too the compound, but it didn’t work).
The dream was unresolved in terms of “did they ever get what they were after” and Idk if they ever got in. But in between all the serious stuff was some seriously funny and good moments. Absolutely none of it is really from the show (except for Strickler and Barbara flirting, I guess, lol) but like. It was so flipping fun to wake up from this one.
Strickler and Jim were allies. He accidentally called him dad and then threatened to stab him with a plastic fork if it was ever brought up again. Everybody called Strickler “barrel” as a nick-name and in-dream-universe it made sense so he sighed but rolled with it. Jim did some morally questionable things. Everybody rode bikes everywhere except Strickler had a maserati or something. Strickler had green eyes and a green changeling form so everybody also nicknamed him Jade. Barbara and Strickler had a cute flirting moment before dying again for the mission.
It was just. It was a lot and it was so much fun! Plus Merida was a toddler that Jim and Toby and Strickler had to save from basically the mafia of Arcadia while at a diversity conference celebrating the greatest minds from around the world.
Und eines Tages fällt dir auf, dass du 99 Prozent nicht brauchst. Du nimmst all den Ballast und schmeißt ihn weg, denn es reist sich besser mit leichtem Gepäck.
Ich tue niemanden einen Gefallen damit, dass ich noch lebe. Niemand würde mich vermissen. Auch jetzt nicht. Wieso auch? Aber das ist nicht schlimm, sondern gut so. Ich bin froh darüber. Falls ich irgendwann nicht mehr da bin, gebt euch nicht die Schuld. Ihr versucht euch nur von schlechten Menschen, wie mir, fernzuhalten.
