A dialogue between members of a team
To be honest, the message in the dialogue that follows would lose value if I were to contextualize it in detail.
Also, mentioning from where the dialogue is from would further diminish its value, so I will refrain from doing that as well.
I also don't want you to read it like it is some cringe-ass linkedIn post relating marriage to a b2b sale or some bs like that.
You should read it with the same feeling you get when making a decision towards achieving a collective goal; where the outcome is impossibly in any one person's hands, but rather in everyone's hands.
That said I will summarize the context to disclaiming that the dialogue:
- Is hyperbolic / extreme - not meant to be taken literally but rather interpret.
- Happens between two people, with a bystander, that due to circumstances, find themselves at the gate of a one way door decision. Meaning, it is one thing or the other. One door being sticking to an objective together, the other being the opposite.
- "...But if I stay, you will keep me safe" - Said in a mocking, full-of-disbelief tone.
Bystander:
- "Yes!" - Said immediately in reply, with the utmost certainty.
Person B:
- "No." - Said in interruption to the Bystander's certain reply with even greater certainty. - "I can't promise you that." - Concluded with peace.
Person B stops to reflect for a second. Then continues to say:
- "None of us can" - Concludes.
Before allowing Person A to even think of a response, Person B, elaborates:
- "But I swear... that your life... will always matter more to me, than my own" - Spoken like a truth that's always known but never internalized until said out loud.
Person A - Captivated:
- "You don't even know me" - unable to look at person b directly in the eyes.
Person B, in a assuring, daring, and assumed-risk eye-to-eye stare:
- "What difference does that make?"
Now, stop.
... and tell me, who are you in this conversation? Person A, B or the bystander?
My educated guess, is that without consciously thinking about it. You internalized Person B was you.
Now read it again.
Best,
Diego