Leaving. Not Leaving. Whatever.

[nolabear]

30. Oh who died and made you the arbiter of peoples' reality?

Perhaps people who leave want their friends to know they're leaving. Perhaps they hope that someone who has insulted or hurt them to be sorry. Perhaps they are talking to themselves in a way, trying to make a clean break from a compelling experience that they know is upsetting to them. If you left a neighborhood that had become a place you'd no longer want to live what's "unhealthy" about being sad and reminiscing about how much you'd loved it and saying goodbye to your good neighbors?

You do not know these people. You don't know what they get out of being here, you don't know what their lives are like, either in the flesh or in their minds and feelings. People have varying needs, varying sensitivities, varying desires. Respecting that fact and letting each one come and go in whatever manner they feel best about seems far more "healthy" to me than telling them that they're "too" anything.