Comments on: Chapter 27 – Tabula Rasa: Page 2

By: IronDog

IronDog — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:40:00 +0000

“No, but I do!”

By: SVM2015

SVM2015 — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:07:00 +0000

Good thing I waited awhile before jumping back on. Those cliffhangers would’ve driven me nuts during summer classes!
This reunion is so adorable. But of course I can’t wait until we get to the expected reunion we’ve all been waiting for. (Is it just me or did Carlos pretty much set them up in the previous pages?)

By: JesBelle

JesBelle — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:39:00 +0000

When people like your clients needed to be hospitalized and they needed 24-hour supervision regardless of the extremes that their fear and confusion were driving them to, I was the person sitting by their bedside for 12 hours. Sometimes, somebody has to give a person a free pass to treat them badly.

Yes, it is my choice if I want to give someone a free ride for anything. I’d point out that hurting someone and abusing them are not the same thing.

Speaking of things I don’t have to put up with if I don’t want to — you don’t get to have your say, drop the mic, walk off the stage, and expect me to simply accept your conditions of silence. If you wish to drop this thread, that’s fine. You’ve had your say and I’ve had mine. However, I will not promise to refrain from remarking on posts in a public forum.

By: JesBelle

JesBelle — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:16:00 +0000

1. Elan is bright, not telepathic.
2. I’m not disputing that Rafa has more legal or moral right to the cat. I’m pointing out that he only brought up Mura to hurt Elan.
3. Sensibly keeping a relationship at a certain level involves having a conversation with the person with whom you are sensibly in a sensible relationship, not withholding your time and presence from them.
4. Yup
5. Elan called Rafa, ergo Rafa has Elan’s number. I assume the narrative would have mentioned it, if that weren’t so. Rafa made a decision FOR Elan. Then he let Elan believe that Rafa was never all that invested in him in the first place. I haven’t forgotten Rafa’s motive, which is why I think he should be forgiven, but that doesn’t mean that taking away Elan’s agency in the matter was anything but wrong.
6. Why would I have forgotten this? That was a great thing Rafa did.

I was not trying to make the point that the rift between Elan and Rafa is actually Rafa’s fault. I was just pointing out that you seem pretty invested in the idea that it is all Elan’s fault when actually they have both made poor decisions — They seem pretty evenly matched in the violating privacy, lashing out, and withholding departments. They’ve also had equally positive influences on each other — Rafa taught Elan to how to defend himself; Elan got someone to look at Rafa’s art.

By: DayiaKnyte

DayiaKnyte — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 02:00:00 +0000

I work at a retirement community and deal with various stages of dementia and other forms of memory loss; as well as the depression that comes with losing one’s self reliance and independence.
Even then, we gauge behavior on their abilities as far as what is expectable and not exactable.

If you want to give a person a free ride for abusing you, that is your choice.
But not holding them accountable doesn’t help them to make the changes they need to make.
Elan needs to make some changes in his life, and until someone says something to him, he will see no reason to change.
I will be sorely disappointed if this ends up with them just talking and everything is okay.

We both have gone back and forth on this topic and neither of us has changed our opinions. So unless either of us can bring something new to the subject I think it best we leave each other to our opinions and refrain from commenting on each others posts.