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⌈ Secret Post #3044 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Rosemary & Thyme]

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[Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken]

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[A Game of Thrones, Jon Snow]

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(Overlord 1)

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[Asterix the Gaul]

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[Repo! The Genetic Opera / Marvel's Agents of SHIELD]

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[Panic! at the Disco]

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[Free! Iwatobi Swim Club]

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[Harry Potter]

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[Darren Criss in Hedwig and the Angry Inch]

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12. [ SPOILER WARNING for Downton Abbey ]

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[Steven Universe]

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Has anyone read this story by Shirley Jackson?

In it, a young woman walks away from her wealthy, stuffy home (on her sister's wedding day) to begin a new life in another city under a new identity. It's a very prosaic sort of life, because what she wants is "to fade into some background where they would never see me." She is thrilled at having completely reinvented herself--"I was a girl named Lois Taylor who lived on Primrose Street and worked at the stationery store"--less than 24 hours after leaving home.

Then an old frenemy catches sight of her and forces her to come back to her hometown with him, so he can claim the reward her family have put up for her safe return...and her family insist that she's an impostor. She's gotten her wish--to become a completely different person, one whom none of them would recognize.

For years, I've wished I could do the same.

So have any F!Sers reinvented their lives?

It's not like I haven't thought about it. I just wouldn't actually do that, because I think it would be horrible to be on the other side of that, wondering where someone was and if they were okay.

Anyway, when you're an adult, you have the right to make life changes without consulting people. It's not like you need a new identity in order to do it.

It's true that an adult needs nobody's permission to make life changes, even sweeping ones, but there's no denying that there's often a lot of pushback when you do.

TBQH, I sometimes think that even the people who frequently tell you how unsatisfactory you are would be displeased if you changed, because they no longer know how to classify and label you.

This makes me think of the secret shown in The Postsecret TED talk where it's a pic of the towers with a drawn in plane. The caption reads: Since 9/11, everyone thinks I'm dead.

That image and the idea behind it has haunted me for years. I would rather think of someone walking away from their lives as described from the story than the one on the postcard.

Yes, multiple times. (No pun intended.) It is pretty much always incredibly grueling and soul-crushing, because we usually only do it when things have completely fallen apart. (No need to change if things are going WELL, after all.)

Among the things it's demanded of us is homelessness, losing friends and family, poverty, and (most of all) completely restructuring our understanding of reality. Not only is it extremely difficult and painful, but it puts you at extreme vulnerability to predation from others, because you're in transition and more suggestible than usual. I mean, obviously it has served us well, but I would never call it easy or fun.

--Rogan

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