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[Cleared font formatting, check. Autocorrect, check. Masked I.D., triple check. Dave's been wrestling with this question for over a week, and he's no closer to an answer than he was eight days ago. No closer than he was three years ago.
Where's Dear Abby when you need advice?]
Have you ever been in a situation
Where you knew something somebody else didn't
And you weren't sure if you should tell them or not
Like you knew that if they found out they'd be really upset but there's also nothing they could do about it
And you don't want them to blame themselves
Or
Get mad at you
But pretending it didn't happen feels
I don't know
A lot like lying I guess
What would you do in those circumstances?
I'm asking for a friend.
Where's Dear Abby when you need advice?]
Have you ever been in a situation
Where you knew something somebody else didn't
And you weren't sure if you should tell them or not
Like you knew that if they found out they'd be really upset but there's also nothing they could do about it
And you don't want them to blame themselves
Or
Get mad at you
But pretending it didn't happen feels
I don't know
A lot like lying I guess
What would you do in those circumstances?
I'm asking for a friend.
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a hard circumstance to talk to someone about.
[And one he knows about far too well.]
Do they remember it?
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I don't think so
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Easier said that done, I know.
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But I got told off for something like this once in the past so I guess I wanted to crowdsource whether or not it's right or wrong
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It's not really lying if you don't ever bring it up, and they don't remember.
Not really.
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But not lying isn't the same as not wrong
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Sometimes it's worth just pretending it hasn't happened, though. It's not worth the pain.
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Call it selfish thinking, maybe, but it's not worth them being in pain, either.
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But if you let them know you were looking out for them... I don't think they could stay mad forever.
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Then we wouldn't even have this problem
But there's literally nothing anyone can do to make it any less fuckin awful
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It fucking sucks.
At least this world is peaceful.
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Which is why I'm not exactly raring to drop this bomb on my friend because I'm sure it's the same for them
But yeah like worst case scenario and they find out and everything gets fucked
At least neither of us will have to actually deal with any of that shit while we're here
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It hasn't happened yet to the person I know, though. Maybe the same will happen to you.
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Even if I tell them
I don't want them to have to remember themselves
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Pretty lousy, but neither of us have much of a choice.
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Here's hoping at least one of us makes it through our respective total drama shitstorms unscathed
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Good luck.