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

[blazeit]

I probably wouldn't forget it, if it were a serious fuck-up, but I feel like giving myself too much shit over it, I'll just get obsessed with what I did wrong instead of what I can do right next time.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Oh.


Oh I hadn't
I really hadn't thought of it that way before.
I'm going to need to take some time with this one.

[blazeit]

Well
You're welcome? I think... I'm not entirely sure.

[ He thinks? He probably helped, though. ]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

No it's good.
I think
This is weird, yes, thank you.

[blazeit]

I mean..... I think your entire situation is REALLY fuckin weird, so I can't blame you for that...

[hashtagafreakingghost]

It is.
You don't even know the half of how weird it is but
I didn't really want to go into DETAIL-details.

[blazeit]

... I guess Pokémon world must be kind of a nice change of pace, huh
I mean. It's still weird as fuck but it's not BAD weird.
It's like. Really stress-free?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Could've used a bit more time to sort through everything on my own.
With the people who experienced what I did.
But this place isn't horrible.

[blazeit]

Hey, distracting yourself with animal therapy is like, a totally legit way to work out problems imo.
But yeah ... I see your point.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

It's getting hard to just distract. I can't run forever, unfortunately.

[blazeit]

Ok so... this is deeper shit than I normally think about so this might sound totally stupid but I guess I don't see it as running away?
Idk. It's just that sometimes I think about stupid shit I did and I realize I wouldn't have done the stupid shit if I just put some distance between the real facts and now I felt about them.

Not that I do stupid shit that often. [ IMPORTANT FYI ]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

I suppose. A little space is fine, really, but trying to put it out of my mind just made everything worse. Maybe finding a medium.

[blazeit]

Yeah, I guess so.
Idk. I think it's hard to say for sure without, like, weirdly imprinting my own experiences on yours

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Every experience is different.
That's a realization that doesn't exactly HELP with figuring this out, but it puts things in perspective.

[blazeit]

Yeah, true.... well
It looks like you got a buncha answers so hopefully some of them are helpful??

[hashtagafreakingghost]

They are.
A lot of people have been incredibly insightful. I hope I'll be able to apply some of them.