Didn't you know I'm always lost?

"nothing different anyway."

You are healthy and active.

You are sick and recovering.

You are feeling emotional and lost.

You feel like you are failing at getting better.

You are relapsing.

You are falling back into bad habits.

“See… The thing is, if we ever “break up”, I’d be devastated. Not because we were ever together, but because I’d be wondering about the what ifs and could haves and the potential we could have had. I think that’s what would hurt the most: wondering if we could have been the best thing out there, and not being able to see that come into fruition.” 

“I mean, I’d rather be as we are than lose you entirely.” 

“You’re confusing the shit out of me! Like, do you like me, or do you not? Do you want me or what the fuck? What are we?” 

“You broke my heart, but we weren’t even fucking together in the first place, which makes this all the shittier. You played me, then moved on like you didn’t leave a mark turned scar on me.” 

“So like… Are we just going to dance around our feelings and act like we don’t want something more? Or is it just me who feels this way?”

“I feel like if you truly wanted to be with me then it wouldn’t be so hard for me to have you around me for even just a minute, you know?”

“Maybe you should end things with them? Before you get hurt.“ “Well, I know I’m probably going to get my heart broken at the end of this but I also like to suffer. Actually, to be honest, I’m already hurt, but thanks for worrying about me!”

“I get this rush when I talk to you. It’s a high I chase, and I know it’s unhealthy, but I can’t stop.”

“So apparently I don’t know how to respect myself, because I’m wanting someone who doesn’t want me back as much, if at all.” 

“Some stupid part of me believes one day this could become something more, so then I end up hurting myself because it’s apparently what I do best, because I know this isn’t going to become something more. I’m deluding myself.”

“I say I’m going to get over them when they stop responding for a while, but I damn well know I’d run back to them the moment they hit me up again.”

“I’ve long accepted the fact that we won’t ever move past this stage, but then you do shit like that and it gives me hope, and that fucking hurts.” 

“You want the security a relationship gives you, and everything else it has to offer, but you don’t want a relationship. Well, at least with me. What the hell? You don’t get to string me along like this, you fucking asshole.” 

Tashigi: We went to a bar

Zoro: I ordered the strongest drink they had. 24 times.

Tashigi: then he started a brawl. I told him it's illegal

Zoro: I told her I don't care

Tashigi: then we got thrown out and talked about our future.

Zoro: yeah. It's important.

Tashigi: yes. we talked about training schedules and why I think the sword polish he uses is garbage

Zoro: it was really nice.

Tashigi: yeah. so romantic. 😊 Still think your polish is garbage

Zoro: so is your guard

Mihawk cut Zoro down because he neither knew or liked him, but was impressed by his determination, willpower and courage.

Now, Zoro refuses to cut down Tashigi, because he learned a valuable lesson back then from his fight with Mihawk. Mihawk decided to not kill Zoro, so they’d fight each other again in the future. Zoro doesn’t cut Tashigi down because he wants her to challenge him again, because he respects her as a swordswoman and wants to see her grow, because he’s impressed by her courage and willpower to challenge him over and over again, but also gets out of her way when necessary and when she needs his help with something, and hell does Zoro see himself in her, and how he refused to accept that Kuina was always better than him.