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stagesoflove Seven Sins challenge, R, Sanzo/Gojyo/Hakkai/Goku. Though this part is just Gojyo/Hakkai- who'd've thought I'd write that?
Fall- Temperance for thestagesoflove Seven Virtues challenge, G, Konzen/Kenren/Tenpou+Goku, though again, this part is just Tenpou/Konzen.
...and this is why you shouldn't wait until the last minute to write things.
I was at a graduation party this weekend, and a group of us were sitting around outside in the afternoon sun when a fly flew into someone's drink. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, except that it happened to become the topic of conversation, people ew-ing and joking at how it was swimming. After a few minutes of that, I snapped, "Don't just stare at it" and dipped the corner of a napkin into the drink to let it crawl up, and then set it in the light to dry.
Which, apparently, is an incredibly funny thing to do. Or at least it set off a fresh round of laughter and several reiterations of "you haven't changed at all!"- these were people I knew in high school- and "That is so you; you're the only one who would do that!" Trying to point out that there is something disturbing about watching anything drown, even a fly, and joking about it got me shouted down with "only you, only you".
I get not wanting to be annoyed by things, I mean, hell, it's a fly; if it had crawled on me instead of flying into the girl's drink, I probably would have swatted it without a second thought. I also understand not wanting to bother; I'm not going out to save the flies of the world. But how can you already have taken the time and effort to watch, and comment on, and pay attention to suffering- however small, however unimportant- and not feel compelled to stop it? How is it amusing? I mean, how dare you?
I don't know why I felt compelled to share that with you all. It was just stuck in my head.
stagesoflove Seven Sins challenge, R, Sanzo/Gojyo/Hakkai/Goku. Though this part is just Gojyo/Hakkai- who'd've thought I'd write that?Fall- Temperance for the
stagesoflove Seven Virtues challenge, G, Konzen/Kenren/Tenpou+Goku, though again, this part is just Tenpou/Konzen. ...and this is why you shouldn't wait until the last minute to write things.
I was at a graduation party this weekend, and a group of us were sitting around outside in the afternoon sun when a fly flew into someone's drink. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, except that it happened to become the topic of conversation, people ew-ing and joking at how it was swimming. After a few minutes of that, I snapped, "Don't just stare at it" and dipped the corner of a napkin into the drink to let it crawl up, and then set it in the light to dry.
Which, apparently, is an incredibly funny thing to do. Or at least it set off a fresh round of laughter and several reiterations of "you haven't changed at all!"- these were people I knew in high school- and "That is so you; you're the only one who would do that!" Trying to point out that there is something disturbing about watching anything drown, even a fly, and joking about it got me shouted down with "only you, only you".
I get not wanting to be annoyed by things, I mean, hell, it's a fly; if it had crawled on me instead of flying into the girl's drink, I probably would have swatted it without a second thought. I also understand not wanting to bother; I'm not going out to save the flies of the world. But how can you already have taken the time and effort to watch, and comment on, and pay attention to suffering- however small, however unimportant- and not feel compelled to stop it? How is it amusing? I mean, how dare you?
I don't know why I felt compelled to share that with you all. It was just stuck in my head.
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Date: 2006-05-23 05:40 pm (UTC)And I can understand not taking the time, even- I don't necessarily save every worm and fly I happen to see in a day. But if you're already bothering to talk about it and watch it, how can you be watching a bug and not register on some level that it's dying? Gah, I dunno. People!