“I’m not giving up on it, just yet.”
“dude — it’s possible you’re experiencing this shit I read one time– some type of fallacy bro”
“what’s that?”
“How can I put it… um– you invested time on this, I get you. You should just consider this–”
“consider what?”
“well… that idea you’ve been working on — it’s like you’re in a relationship with someone who doesn’t want to be with you… but you don’t want to leave because you invested all this effort and time into it–”
“so you think I should give up on my idea?”
“I don’t know — you may or may not want to– you’ll probably want to continue investing time into it because you’re used to doing this even though it may not work out but you’ll have to decide that–”
“yeah.”
“I hope I’m not out of line by–”
“No.– Thanks — I appreciate it.”
“It’s… coming from a good place…”
“Yeah — I know… it’s just that–um…”
“yeah — you’ll cut the losses or you’ll continue to invest–”
“yeah.”
“at least it’s up to you.”