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RJ on The Loss of People You Never Knew
14 years ago
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There's no point in hating life...
There is a time where you, as a user of Fur Affinity, will of course be surfing the hundreds of thousands of pieces on here, not a care in the world.
And then you come across an account - a user, a fellow Furry, a fellow HUMAN BEING. And you are suddenly overcome with a feeling like no other. The Strangest, Saddest Feeling that I personally have ever felt.
The feeling of realising that the User of the Page you are looking at, admiring the art of and reading the journals they have left, is dead.
You read that right.
It is the strangest thing - seeing their art, a true, deep view into their soul and mindset, sering them so ALIVE, and then reading all of the heartbreaking tributes that their friends have left. And sometimes, in the case of the user I have just discovered, the last journal they wrote.
In this case, it was a suicide note. The way it was written... So casual, so informal. He even ended it by saying Ciao with an exclamation mark.
Never before in my life have i felt mourning for someone Ive never met. Never even spoken to, didnt even know that they existed until after their death...
I dont know whether its a touching tribute or administrator lazyness, or even if it is just a matter of no one being able to get into the account and close it, but i am so thankful that their pages are still up. I feel honoured that i can discover who these fantastic, talented, tender, occassionally funny and cheeky people were.
I just wish i got to know them beforehand... :(
I love you all. I am so happy i know you all now, and i will never take you for granted.
Genuinely. Its love, guys. :)
And then you come across an account - a user, a fellow Furry, a fellow HUMAN BEING. And you are suddenly overcome with a feeling like no other. The Strangest, Saddest Feeling that I personally have ever felt.
The feeling of realising that the User of the Page you are looking at, admiring the art of and reading the journals they have left, is dead.
You read that right.
It is the strangest thing - seeing their art, a true, deep view into their soul and mindset, sering them so ALIVE, and then reading all of the heartbreaking tributes that their friends have left. And sometimes, in the case of the user I have just discovered, the last journal they wrote.
In this case, it was a suicide note. The way it was written... So casual, so informal. He even ended it by saying Ciao with an exclamation mark.
Never before in my life have i felt mourning for someone Ive never met. Never even spoken to, didnt even know that they existed until after their death...
I dont know whether its a touching tribute or administrator lazyness, or even if it is just a matter of no one being able to get into the account and close it, but i am so thankful that their pages are still up. I feel honoured that i can discover who these fantastic, talented, tender, occassionally funny and cheeky people were.
I just wish i got to know them beforehand... :(
I love you all. I am so happy i know you all now, and i will never take you for granted.
Genuinely. Its love, guys. :)
i really feel sad because i feel that we as furries are all connected in some way y'know...
Same. Were a very close knit community, like a massive family. You dont talk to everyone, but you wouldnt hesitate to hug and chat with them if you just randomly met them in the street.
Does that mean if i see you in the street i should hug you? :3
my ex does x3
I didnt know you guys had broken up. :s So where you live then??
I live in leicester :3
I think it has to do with the humanisation of it, why do you think during WW2 propaganda on either side portrayed the other as inhuman? Because you need to be a cold, heartless person to knowingly take the life another human being. It's a lot easier to kill someone if somehow subconciously you don't register them as human. It's easy to drop a bomb on a city or fire a shell and destroy a tank. But to kill a soldier at point-blank with a handgun, staring at him in the face, you need to think somehow he's not human to pull that trigger.
Don't think only troops dehumanise others, we do it all the time. We know there's all kinds of atrocities going on throughout the world: Children enslaved to harvest chocolate, women systematically raped and murdered, children in broken homes, natural disasters destroying people's livelihoods, families in inda so poor they don't even live in slums but under overpasses....it's happening all over the world to billions at this very moment. In order for the rest of us to go on with our lives, our brains subconsciously dehumanise these as little tidbits of trivia or numbers, otherwise we'd all be so horribly drowned in guilt either nothing could ever get done or we'd all commit suicide (because like it or not there is not enough resources on this earth to sustain everyone equally, just to feed everyone if we all ate to the level of the Americans we'd need 4 Earths for the farmland alone. Therefore be thankful for what you have and carry on being productive).
This is also why the media absolutely LOVES to interview the full story of one girl or family's individual, personal experience of whatever calamity their covering. You can't subconsciously dehumanise anymore when you've got a name and backstory attached to one person. It's a lot easier to empathise with an 11 year old girl named Anusha who's been orphaned by a flood and has no future since her home and school have been destroyed than 15 million people who've lost their homes in the recent Bangladeshi floods.
"One Death is a Tragedy, A Million is a Statistic" - Joseph Stalin
Its a very humbling and sobering feeling, definitely. It makes me very glad i know you guys. :)
like your almost connected in ways as a brother