Wow, Melissa. I think this was wonderful. Hear me out. You suggest it when you mentioned lessons learned. You got to experience a voluntary deep end, and not just a peek, or via 3rd party. It enabled you to see into the dark. I have acquaintances that can't, or don't want to comprehend darkness. And not only does that blind them to the dark, they blinds them to the achievement and light of goodness--they take it for granted. The way you wrote your piece was easy for me to read, as I sensed you would face it clearly and head on. And you did. It is also a wonderful morality tale. I get bored by realism, but when stories and art have a life lessoned learned or moral at the end, it bears reading again. Like watching a Star Trek series. And kudos to your parents for bringing you up well enough, to have the ability to find the better alternative path. Congrats on who you are.
Thank you, Michael. This was really nice to hear. I’ve never really thought about it that way, but I think you’re right—without this experience, I may have been blind to this dark side of life that I was forced to experience firsthand.
I’m glad you were able to find some value in this story. It uplifts me now to think that, at the very least, it was all a very dark lesson. Thank you so much for reading.
A very open and relatable story, I'm glad you found your way out of that place. The one thing I will say about the 'there are no bad people' part is this; I think that is true of the majority of people, but there are a small percentage of people who genuinely get off on hurting others and messing with their lives. I have had experiences with two people like this in my life and I can honestly say they were 'wired different' than most people. When I get a sense of someone like that, I go swiftly in the other direction.
Hm, I don’t know if I’ve ever met such a person, but you might be right—maybe there are people who are just wired differently and doomed from the start. It’s a weird thing, the question of whether some people are truly evil or soulless.
Thank you so much for reading and responding. This was a tough one—it’s comforting to see that it’s relatable to people, and not simply shocking.
Wow, Melissa. I think this was wonderful. Hear me out. You suggest it when you mentioned lessons learned. You got to experience a voluntary deep end, and not just a peek, or via 3rd party. It enabled you to see into the dark. I have acquaintances that can't, or don't want to comprehend darkness. And not only does that blind them to the dark, they blinds them to the achievement and light of goodness--they take it for granted. The way you wrote your piece was easy for me to read, as I sensed you would face it clearly and head on. And you did. It is also a wonderful morality tale. I get bored by realism, but when stories and art have a life lessoned learned or moral at the end, it bears reading again. Like watching a Star Trek series. And kudos to your parents for bringing you up well enough, to have the ability to find the better alternative path. Congrats on who you are.
Thank you, Michael. This was really nice to hear. I’ve never really thought about it that way, but I think you’re right—without this experience, I may have been blind to this dark side of life that I was forced to experience firsthand.
I’m glad you were able to find some value in this story. It uplifts me now to think that, at the very least, it was all a very dark lesson. Thank you so much for reading.
A very open and relatable story, I'm glad you found your way out of that place. The one thing I will say about the 'there are no bad people' part is this; I think that is true of the majority of people, but there are a small percentage of people who genuinely get off on hurting others and messing with their lives. I have had experiences with two people like this in my life and I can honestly say they were 'wired different' than most people. When I get a sense of someone like that, I go swiftly in the other direction.
Hm, I don’t know if I’ve ever met such a person, but you might be right—maybe there are people who are just wired differently and doomed from the start. It’s a weird thing, the question of whether some people are truly evil or soulless.
Thank you so much for reading and responding. This was a tough one—it’s comforting to see that it’s relatable to people, and not simply shocking.