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apr. 27 '26
hello all,
do you like communicating? like, for real though. like, if someone could instantly understand you, and vice versa—inside and out, no more arguments, and you're still just you know...regular people. friends, lovers, whatever. would you take that? over the work it'll take to get even MINUTELY close to that ideal?
additionally: how much do you value play? play as in, you know, umm...like, being able to tease your friends forever. always bickering. would you maybe prefer...silence?
No, actually, I think the process of communication and the path required to reach that point is important. As much as I wish people would immediately understand me, I think the process is important to realise many things about the relationship, the other person, and even yourself. But that mostly applies when you're young (Yeah, I'm young. 17 is young.) If I was older, I'd rather not. I'd rather have people immediately understand me and just talk to me.
I value play a LOT. I love teasing, I love bickering, I love being a bother sometimes. Silence is nice, mostly because it makes the loudness matter. If I consider myself a friend of someone, I will, at some point, have bothered them. It's sort of because of how I was raised (I'm the youngest child), I take teasing as a form of affection even if I don't personally like it THAT much.
