[ SECRET POST #6168 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6168 ⌋

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Comments

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

I just can't stand the smug views about iTs NoT rEaLiStIc and LiFe MeAnS LoSiNg PeOpLe... like, uh, no shit? Not everyone has the same set of friends as an adult that they did as a child, and sometimes you're in and out of each others' lives. Some people don't have friends at all. That doesn't mean you can't be sad to see people part, even if the people in question are fictional.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. We lose people, and we also find people. And some people do have lifelong friends.

"Only sad/bad things are realistic" is a distortion. Plenty of good things happen in real life, and are therefore realistic, as well.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

You can stay in touch with people without living together with them forever. Being tied to someone every day because we got stuck on a week-long adventure together once sounds like the more depressing option.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly this.
People going their ways does not mean that they will lost touch. It just mean that they are not constantly in each other's face.
And somehow anons thinking that all adventures must end in everyone being together 24/7 accuse us of being lonely and too individualistic. Oh excuse me that I care enough for people in my life that I can fucking let them go.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure the choices actually being presented here are, "spend every waking second together" or, "never see them ever again."

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Also that's a really weird last sentence. Do you think people who see one another regularly don't actually care about each other?

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

No, I don't think so. People can grow to be close without stress of "adventures". But they can grow toxic too. And people going their separate ways can still be close friends and also can leave each other and forget everything.
Both versions of endings are happy endings (or neutral depending on the world/your point of view), because now they have their future to live.
So my main objection is to coloring of "going separate ways" as something sad and depressing because it's not true. Because it is as happy ending as staying together for ever and ever and ever and ever

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Presumably the condition at the time of parting is that the friendships/relationships are in good status, not that the bonds are growing toxic or are headed that way.

The original secret said that it bothered the OP, not that nobody should interpret a parting of ways as anything other than sad and depressing, or that no one is allowed to.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

But why does your mind immediately go to a relationship being toxic?

I think that's what's been objected to in the opposite direction: the assumption that, if someone is sad at a parting, then there must be some toxicity there. Missing someone is a completely normal human emotion.

And quite frankly, it sounds like you have your head up your butt if you think that not missing someone means you care for them more than other people.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Where's a show or movie where they stay together for ever and ever and ever and ever? I've only ever seen ones where they go their separate ways and it's sad and boring and I want SOME where they stay together. Please point me to these, I want to watch them.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Man, I am at the point there I want SOME ending and not my favorite show killed by netflix.
No recs, only because right now I've instantly forgot every media I've ever seen

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody's saying YOU can't keep in touch with your friends.

Quite often in fiction, people DO part forever or for long periods of time without ANY form of communication. Of course it's great if they do reunite, but there are plenty of stories that simply end with the parting, with no indication that they'll keep in touch. That's the part that seems sad. The not knowing.

Re: On staying together after the adventure is over

[(Anonymous)]

Oh. You know, that is fair. I've got stuck up on anon in the original secret being all weirdly passionate. But I can see your point