StanleyP
I have a question for you.
AnaBGR
Yes, I am your smartest and most conventionally attractive friend.
StanleyP
I already knew that. With your business, what are you fighting for? Is it simply survival or something else?
Such a serious query from the usually bantering StanleyP, but the question was interesting. I was on my break, seated on a bench on the Golden Crescent strip, enjoying the sunny weather. I typed my reply.
AnaBGR
I guess I don’t want to be collateral damage on someone else’s march to victory.
StanleyP
Yes, but why? Does it come down to money?
AnaBGR
In the way that everything comes down to money, yes. But it’s more than that. Imagine if someone knocked on the door of your home and demanded you leave. Could you abandon it without fighting?
StanleyP
But what if your home was old and falling apart? Maybe it’s time to adapt or die.
AnaBGR
Only someone who judged my home from the outside would say that. I know that what’s inside is worth the fight. That being said, I’m firmly Team StanleyP. Crush your competition and make them beg for mercy.
StanleyP
I don’t think my competition is the begging sort.
AnaBGR
Well, my campaign is going well. I’ve got them on the run.
StanleyP
I’m proud of you. Don’t do anything you regret later.
AnaBGR
I regret nothing.
StanleyP
Take it from this battle-hardened bot: the biggest regrets take a while to manifest, but they get you every time.
I pictured Aydin’s face the previous night, before I walked away. Was StanleyP right? I didn’t want to talk about it anymore. It was bad enough that I could think of little else.
AnaBGR
What else is happening in your life? Tell me something interesting.
