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[black_onslaught]

I've lost count.

[salvationfound]

The first or most significant time you had ever felt it, then. What were your thoughts?

[black_onslaught]

Something along the lines of, "where the hell is my right arm, and I think my brother killed my sister".

[salvationfound]

Something like that.

[salvationfound]

Your best effort, then.

[salvationfound]

And yet, here you are.

[cruxofapotter]

You just have to go with it. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but you can't let it get to you.

[salvationfound]

Regardless of how much fight against it, it will happen. It would be best to take it in stride.

A noble thought. But would you feel the same way if you were within that very moment?

[cruxofapotter]

Some things are going to happen, no matter how much you don't want them to.

I have in those moments. They won't be over unless you face whatever it is.

[salvationfound]

[There's a pause before he writes back as he thinks of how kids are awfully young to be facing decisions like that.]

I suppose you're right.

[pimpinwings]

I think I've lost count of those.

[salvationfound]

The one you recall the most.

[pimpinwings]

I think you know which one that'd be. There's not much you can do as a kid, so I guess you can say I didn't cope well at all.

[salvationfound]

Then what made you decide to continue living, despite the parting words?

[halgitamilf]

Several. And...not very well, at first.

[salvationfound]

The experience that gave you the most thought, then. How did you go on?

[halgitamilf]

I weighed by blessings against my shortcomings and disappointments. I proceeded then to cut losses.

It was a rather cold and clinical approach, in retrospect.

[salvationfound]

If it made you who you are today, then it is a wise approach. Better than some choices...