The prince giggles. His followed-around metaphor sounds a lot funnier out loud in words.
"What I'd like to be is what I am," he says, which is probably not the clearest way to express what he means, but luckily Kiri can read his mind.
It expands to something like: he has exactly the nature of being himself, already, without having to do anything about it. And remaining himself is exactly what he would like to do. But if he had some external or internal standard to compare himself to, then when something about him changed - which is still in the nature of being himself, and perfectly okay - he would notice the change, in a different way than how he usually does, and that might make it harder to be the new him instead of the old him, or instead of some other more standard-conforming him, or even some other less standard-conforming him. And he wouldn't like that. He would like to absolutely minimize the amount of second-guessing about his own personality that he is tempted to do.
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Date: 2014-03-08 05:10 pm (UTC)"What I'd like to be is what I am," he says, which is probably not the clearest way to express what he means, but luckily Kiri can read his mind.
It expands to something like: he has exactly the nature of being himself, already, without having to do anything about it. And remaining himself is exactly what he would like to do. But if he had some external or internal standard to compare himself to, then when something about him changed - which is still in the nature of being himself, and perfectly okay - he would notice the change, in a different way than how he usually does, and that might make it harder to be the new him instead of the old him, or instead of some other more standard-conforming him, or even some other less standard-conforming him. And he wouldn't like that. He would like to absolutely minimize the amount of second-guessing about his own personality that he is tempted to do.