“You’re so fond of showing people shortcuts, why do you take the long road yourself?”
“I learn more.”
“But it takes so much time!”
“If I learn something along the way, it’s worth it!”
“But you waste time and that’s something we don’t have much!”
“Not if I then show someone else the shortcut and others follow. Isn’t that better?”
“Well, if you don’t know how to do something, why don’t you just ask?”
“Haha, I do. Just that I only do that in desperate cases.”
She wouldn’t say she didn’t ask because she hated to be thought as an inconvenience.
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