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Elda Marker ([personal profile] matchbreaker) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-08-16 05:37 pm

Texts from Late Night

[ Posted sometime around like four in the morning: ]

Has anyone else found themselves falling in love with someone in those memories we all get? That might feel a little extreme, but the face has been sticking with me for a while now.
floret: (we pulled the draft files out)

[personal profile] floret 2018-08-18 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
I can remember the love my past self felt very clearly, and I guess I can feel it, too... It was very strong when I held my heart stone, back when those were doing things.
But it still definitely feels... past, I suppose.
That is, I don't find myself pining after the person he loved or anything like that.
floret: (hand on the bible)

[personal profile] floret 2018-08-23 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
It is? What were other people's stones doing?

...Now I wonder, though. Maybe it's only easy for me to experience those feelings as something distant because the person they were centered on doesn't actually exist in this world (at least as far as I know). If she were to suddenly appear here... (or if she'd been here, and we'd just never happened to meet)... then...
...Things might be awkward, maybe?
floret: (it's all of us)

[personal profile] floret 2018-08-27 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh
yikes
I hadn't even considered that angle.
yikes yikes yikes
So then
If she did get the app
What should I do??
It'd be so weird and awful to just go up and tell her everything I've remembered. But talking to her without telling her any of that would definitely be creepy and wrong...
urrggghhhh

I should probably just try to avoid her forever, I guess???
Maybe go live in a cave or something
floret: (first it was a question)

[personal profile] floret 2018-08-30 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
mmnnggh
I guess you're right
I don't think there are any good caves around here anyway.

But the thing is...
I don't know
I mean if it's someone who's going to be happy to see us, then it's still complicated, but as long as we don't do anything SUPER weird and creepy, I feel like they'll probably end up being fine with it.

But if they probably wouldn't want to see us, given the choice...
Then
I don't know.
floret: (spring-street storefront daisies)

[personal profile] floret 2018-09-01 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe...
I wonder at what point you bring the bad stuff up, though?
Is it just, like, saying hi, asking their name, chatting a bit about the weather, and then "btw it seems like things got super messed up between us in our past lives and it's cool if you'd rather not talk about that but if you WOULD just lmk and I will give you the full run-down"?
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[personal profile] floret 2018-09-01 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Is that fair to them?
I mean
You don't think they might feel betrayed? That we just let them think everything was fine and normal... trying to get them to like us while we still could, so that maybe they wouldn't be able to hate us even when they did remember?