anon; text;

[tenminutes]

What do you do when the right thing to do is to let everyone you care about disappear and leave you all alone?

What about when some of the people closest to you are the ones making sure they can and will leave, behind your back, because they don't trust you?

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Comments

[ifbymyhands]

People want to leave you...?

[tenminutes]

No.

If I asked them to stay, I'm sure there's not a single one who would leave.

[ifbymyhands]

So they don't want to, but they have to.

[tenminutes]

They'd follow me even if we were bungee-jumping into a volcano. They don't have to, but it's the better thing to do and by them, it'd be the right thing to do for me to let them go.

[makewayforroze]

Few people are really ever alone.

[tenminutes]

When people disappear here, it means they don't exist beyond someone's memories.

Except for the community, it would be a pretty literal aloneness.

[makewayforroze]

But you do have the community.

[tenminutes]

That doesn't make me care about all of these people any less.

[eternallybored]

so if i am reading this correctly, there are people for whom you care that personally do not wish to disappear, but someone for whom you care more is intentionally attempting to make them disappear ( ・◇・)？ ヽ(　￣д￣;)ノ

why exactly would you bother staying close to them, then, if you know what they are trying to do and you do not want the others to disappear? if you truly care about them, then tactful confrontation is not something you should avoid.

[tenminutes]

Oh, there's going to be confrontation. I need to figure out what to do first, because I know that then disappearing is actually the right thing to do too.

Doesn't mean I like or want the right thing.

[eternallybored]

╮(─▽─)╭ ah, well, if there are those that do not wish to disappear i fail to see how it is right that they do.

[tenminutes]

Does it make more sense if they've got the wrong idea about what disappearing actually means since they've been listening to me the whole time?

[masked_god]

Carry on. Its the only thing you can do.

[tenminutes]

That seems to be the general conclusion.

Points for getting there a lot faster than everyone else.

[masked_god]

I try to cut to the chase. Still, its an unfortunate situation.

[tenminutes]

I was hoping someone would have some advice for compromise or something, but it looks like I've just got to deal with it and hope I don't lose access to the community on top of it.

[sandinmyboots]

Story of my life. You either let them tear your heart out and stomp on it or you make it clear that you won't let them leave.

[tenminutes]

That sounds about it. It'd be literally everyone eventually, though. I'd end up in an empty world and you guys would be the only people left to talk to.

Not that you guys aren't great, but I care about everyone here too much.

[sandinmyboots]

It's not that bad. That already happened to me. You deal with it after a while.

anon;

[omniferous]

Let them leave, if they want to. You should do the right thing, shouldn't you?

anon;

[tenminutes]

[ It's anon, she can... She can be more honest. This person doesn't know her, it's not like he could guess even if she slipped up and said something damning. ]

Even if it feels like everything I care about is falling apart? Why does doing what's right have to be so unfair?

anon;

[omniferous]

It has to be unfair for someone. Would you rather it be you, or a person that you care about?

[doyoufondue]

If it's the right thing to do and they're going to leave, don't stop them. Even if someone's making them distrust you while they go.

[tenminutes]

Everyone else doesn't distrust me, Steve. The people who are the ones trying to get everyone else to disappear are the only ones not saying anything.

[doyoufondue]

[ that's so anon of you, yuri ]

What made them want to disappear?