"I just need to be alone so I can study without some crazy pony trying to make friends, all right?"
[Later]
"Then you left town without saying goodbye even though we were supposed to be friends! I was humiliated! I felt like I wasn't important! I never wanted to let myself be hurt like that again! Those three finally convinced me that I had value! That other ponies might like me and want to be my friend! And you! Didn't! Show! Up!"
— Moondancer, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Twenty years after graduation, my dream came true. "Look!" I said to the haters. "My book got turned into a movie and put me on the bestseller list! I bet you regret excluding me from your little reindeer games!"
"We constantly invited you to things," they'd respond, through their jealous scowls. "You just rarely showed up and when you did, you acted like a dick. And to be frank, the world needs more healthcare workers than authors, so if anything, you should be ashamed of every dollar you make."
Translation: "We wish that we, too, had pursued the Jason Pargin Methodology For Alpha Goal Accomplishment."
"We constantly invited you to things," they'd respond, through their jealous scowls. "You just rarely showed up and when you did, you acted like a dick. And to be frank, the world needs more healthcare workers than authors, so if anything, you should be ashamed of every dollar you make."
Translation: "We wish that we, too, had pursued the Jason Pargin Methodology For Alpha Goal Accomplishment."
