Second 👻 Story [Anonymous Text]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[For the past few days, all Ashley's done is try to figure out how to get the PokéConnect anonymous. It'd been an idea in the back of her mind for a week or so and then- well, it became an urge and now here she is.]

I need to ask for some advice.
This might also turn out to be a moral question, maybe? I'm playing by ear.

The scenario:
You take part in something careless and thoughtlessly cruel. A tragedy occurs. One that costs lives. You've accidentally hurt a dear, close friend.
That friend then methodically and maliciously plans and carries out revenge that inadvertently puts your life, the lives of your friends, and their own life in danger.
What the hell do you do?
Is it right to be pissed when it's your fault it all happened?
IS it really your fault?
What's worse, a horrible accident or a plot purposely designed to hurt others?
How would you try to move forward?
How would you try to forgive yourself?
Do you deserve to?

Consider this a moral quandary if you will. I'd just really like some advice. Some opinions.

Comments

[permanon]

[usedglaciate]

Still.

If you weren't strong, you wouldn't be talking to all of us. That's huge, honestly.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

I don't know. Everyone just kept telling me to talk to someone and there was no one I could specifically talk to, so I posed the question to the populace at large.

[usedglaciate]

Do I ever know that feeling. I lucked up, I think, in having friends arrive around the same time I did, so the things that happened at home before we got here were easier to handle. I can't imagine having something awful happen and having to keep it to myself.

...I don't know that I'd have been able to open up like you did.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

One of the ones who arrived with a group. I wish I could be like that. I hate that it didn't turn out that way.

I just decided doing something was better than doing nothing and this was my only option. If you see that as strength, I guess I can't argue.

[usedglaciate]

I'm sorry that it didn't turn out that way. I know you have to miss your friends.

It is strength. It takes a lot of courage to bring up an incident like that one seems to be in front of other people.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

I miss them all more than I could ever imagine. Some more than others, but that's only to be expected.

I suppose
There was something you said previously. The past can't be changed. Maybe that's the step I need to take next. Accepting that.
I can be sorry all I want, but nothing will change. No matter how much I want it to.

[usedglaciate]

I hope that you're able to see them again soon.

I think you're right. There's no sense living in the past. The first step in going forward is being able to say that to yourself.

I wonder, sometimes, if that's why some of us came here. It's peaceful and relatively quiet compared to home. Maybe someone thought we would need the peace and quiet to recover.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

If it is, it could've picked a bit of a better time. I'd much rather have had a few days at home to relax rather than come straight from the frying pan.

[usedglaciate]

It really could have picked a better time for everyone, but I get what you're saying. The timing sucks.