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Post by Bravo 1 on May 17, 2005 12:55:44 GMT -5
I'm not 100% sure where to post this, so it'll go here...
I was reading a webcomic and the author usually leaves a couple of paragraphs afterwards just taking about stuff. Here's a quote that really struck home:
I suppose I'll be feeling a lot of that these coming weeks. First, there's Star Wars, despite countless preminitions of disappointment, I can't say it'll be worse than 1 or 2 due to one thing. This is it. After this, a certain chapter in my life, a little piece of me, will be gone forever, just a memory.
Moreso, I'll be leaving Georgia. Now, I didn't come here willingly, but, certain things have grown on me. Things are different here, and I'll miss things like sweet tea and going riding in the weekends. I've made some friends here, despite being a sore, bitter loner for half the year, angry at my mom for dragging me here.
Is there a name for this feeling? I felt it to some extent when I left California, even when I finished what is regarded as the 'Classic' Star Wars Expanded Universe. However, the one time I didn't feel it was when I left Romania; I think at that age, I didn't really comprehend the enormous changes that I would be experiencing and how things would never be the same...
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Post by Calislahn on May 17, 2005 13:04:33 GMT -5
As far as the Star Wars thing goes, i felt like that when ROTK came out, three years of excitment and waiting and suddenly nothing to look forward too anymore But then that feeling passed and now i don't really think about it i guess other things came into my life that sort of filled the gap. I always think of that feeling as bittersweet, fond memories but sadness that it's over, felt like that when i left college, i really liked it there and didn't want to go
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Post by Regan on May 17, 2005 13:14:19 GMT -5
ROTK I've always moved around a lot (16 different schools), so never made very close friends, but there have been certain moments when I've felt that awful hollow feeling inside. Usually when a person I care about has died, or in a far more minor way, when something I've looked forward to for a long time has just 'not happened' - I suppose I'm a loner to avoid feeling it, if you expect the worst of people it's more difficult to be let down I realise I have rather a warped view of things, but that's how it is sums it up really, in a hopeless way
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Post by Calislahn on May 17, 2005 13:30:12 GMT -5
Return of The King of course Worst time i ever felt it was when my cat died He'd been my lifelong companion since i was 5, i used to think he would live forever. Now 7 years on i can look back with fond memories without quite so much grief, still makes me a little sad at times though The greatest friend i ever had moved away in 1985 to America, or maybe i should say moved back as she came from there in the first place, even now 20 years later we still keep in touch I can honestly say until i met you lot i had never met anybody else who got me quite like she did, it's nice to come here and talk to you guys and know you understand my love of all things fantasy and don't just consider me an oddball......although maybe you do and i don't realise it ;D I totally understand what you mean by this Regan. I got let down by some so called friends when i was younger, completely knocked my faith in people and what their true intentions might be. That sort of thing makes you very mistrustful i think. Took me years to start trusting people again Well aren't we getting deep this evening ;D
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Post by Bravo 1 on May 17, 2005 14:04:30 GMT -5
Well, I wouldn't quite liken it to the death of a loved one. That different (IMHO). Certainly, when you leave a place, things change...etc, but when something dies, it's gone...forever...(well, depending on your religion, maybe noy forever ...but you know what I mean)
...it's like comparing an iceberg to an icecube (ok, not the deepest of comparisons, but the point is made...right?)
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Post by Calislahn on May 17, 2005 14:17:59 GMT -5
Yes the point is made. I was just responding to what Regan said about that hollow feeling you get, a sort of numbness really Thing is as with everything time passes and our feelings change, like i said Bravo other things will come in to fill the void left by what's gone, one of mine was Scruff a totally unexpected arrival in our family but now i wouldn't be without him, even if he does try to kill me on occasions For example you may not be riding at weekends now but then again you will more than likely go back to playing tennis with your dad again wont you, i should imagine when you first moved to Georgia you missed that as well, unless you were forced into playing tennis that is and was happy to escape
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Post by Bravo 1 on May 17, 2005 14:22:18 GMT -5
...well, I happen to be better at riding than I am at tennis... (well, I'm pretty crap at tennis, but my dad has nobody to play with; it only gets annoying though when some other tennis dad comes with his 9-year old who's training up for the next Wimbledon... ...and tennis requires constant concentration, whereas riding is a great time to think about... anything - depending on the pace you choose).
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Post by Calislahn on May 17, 2005 14:30:31 GMT -5
Well no matter what Bravo you'll always be better at it than me as i'm useless at all ball sports ;D
I was playing cricket with the kids once and Emma said to me "you really are useless aren't you" well i did warn her :laugh4:
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