malik... he's the person i probably could've been if i hadn't fallen in with the crowd i did instead. when it feels like nobody actually cares and you're just there to be held up as an example of how great someone else is... you get suspicious of other people. you start wondering what people want from you when they try to reach out to you because nobody bothers to deal with you otherwise, they just take what they want and sooner or later you'll either get a knife in the back or they'll just abandon you
[Are they talking about Malik's life or his own?]
i'd like to think i wouldn't have dissociated like he did and gone off the deep end but
the last thing he needs is to be thrown in jail and forgotten about
something like that, it'll just reinforce everything he already believes about the world
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malik... he's the person i probably could've been if i hadn't fallen in with the crowd i did instead. when it feels like nobody actually cares and you're just there to be held up as an example of how great someone else is... you get suspicious of other people. you start wondering what people want from you when they try to reach out to you because nobody bothers to deal with you otherwise, they just take what they want and sooner or later you'll either get a knife in the back or they'll just abandon you
[Are they talking about Malik's life or his own?]
i'd like to think i wouldn't have dissociated like he did and gone off the deep end but
the last thing he needs is to be thrown in jail and forgotten about
something like that, it'll just reinforce everything he already believes about the world
he didn't have anyone to help him, not like i do