EIGHTH RIDE ✦ ANONYMOUS TEXT

[diamondo]

What's the worst thing you've ever done? How did you recover from it?

I did something awful back home and the guilt's been eating me up ever since. I have some days where everything's fine and I don't even think about it. Other days it's all I can think about and I can barely do anything. I'm not saying I want to get rid of the guilt entirely because that's not possible, but how do you cope with it? I think it's about time I try to deal with it in other, healthier ways.

...Actually, while I'm on the subject, what's the worst thing someone's ever done to you? Did you forgive them? If so, how? I'm not the sort of person that can forgive easily, but holding onto a grudge forever is pretty awful.

[Look at that, he even went to all the trouble of typing properly so as to hide his identity! He even took out the numerous foul words that originally peppered the message!]

Comments

[ossifragant]

Was it a situation where you were forced to do things you normally wouldn't, by chance?

[twinsanity]

Well, there we go.

Don't say I never did anything for you, asshole or not.

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[freckledoll]

Those are hard questions ta answer. Hm...

I'm not proud of stealin, but everyone has ta eat, right? An most of the time, it wasn't me stealin exactly. I still ate what was taken, though.

Then the worst that has happened ta me...

My parents - if you could call em that - used to beat me pretty bad. They even burned me. But I don't dwell, ye know? What good will that do. I gotta move on an live my life.

[codeforhope]

Good luck. I trust that you will be able to do it. Just don't give up.

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[lieutenantantichrist]

[Blake grabs his phone and his thumbs jab almost blindly.]

Jesus christ, it's every fucking day with you people!

"What do you miss" "What do you think about alternate universes" "How do you stop thinking about hating somebody" "You're in the desert and you leave a turtle on its back", on and fucking on! You ever think maybe people don't want to think about your pissant moral quandaries? Oh, or hey, here's a fun thought - maybe it's none of your fucking business. People are trying to live their goddamn lives here, there's no room for some assholes picking and needling about every fucking thing somebody's ever done.

[The phone in Blake's hand is not staying steady.]

What the fuck do you want from me?

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[beholdmydemons]

There's not much I hold onto guilt for but when it does strike there's not much to do but move on. Act as you'd have yourself act and don't brood over the past because it can't be changed. The days keep turning no matter how you feel.

[walter that's terrible advice-]

The worst things done to me weren't done to me alone and if I ever forgave them I would have to condemn myself. I suppose I'll never forgive the person who schemed to have me killed but he poses no danger anymore so I don't dwell on him. Forgiveness is something I heard a lot about while growing up but I'm soured on the whole idea now.

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[islandshore]

Honestly, the best thing you can do for yourself is move forward. Yeah, it sucks that you can't jump back and time and change those mistakes, but you can at least look back on those mistakes and grow from them. Remember what went wrong, and try your best to keep it from happening again.

I'd say the worst thing I've ever done hasn't happened yet, and everything I have done has always been low-key. But here... hmm, I'd say it's the way I treated my Pokémon. When I first started out, I saw them more as weapons than partners, and because of that, I've got a couple of Pokémon that are overly violent. They only care about fights, and it makes me wish I'd slowed down and tried to raise them better.

Nobody's really done anything unforgivable to me, but that doesn't mean it'll stay that way.

[solas_ion]

That much is all on you, kid. I still say just find something interesting to do and keep yourself busy with it. Usually works for me, more often than not.

[bertall]

...What caused it?