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[Will's been here for a hot second, and he's paid careful attention to...things that are going on. And he's more than ready to hit y'all with a whammy of a moral conundrum. Forgive his slow typing; he's from the 80's and texting isn't really a thing.]

if you do something bad -- like really bad, like unforgivable -- in your life before here

are you allowed to not tell anyone about it? or try to be better here? are you allowed to start over entirely?

is that bad too?

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[ Well, this question was apropros. ]

If you wanna try and make things right, I don't think that's bad in and of itself. Would it hurt anyone if ya kept quiet?

Edited (realized will included his name in the un) 2018-02-17 02:48 (UTC)

i dunno, not talking about it is a little like lying, right? i heard that if you lie about important shit your teeth will start falling out

If you can trust that person I don't see why you couldn't tell them. It's up to you to tell your stories with who you want. Unless you feel that it's too soon to bring up that bad thing. It might do good to tell someone though.

I would try to do better here. If someone wanted to start over entirely, it might work depending on who they are. If their intentions reflect that they do want to start over.

you don't have to tell anyone here anything you don't want to tell.

[And if anyone tries to make him, she'll punch that person right in the nose.]

but for the record sometimes shit just happens and it isn't anyone's fault.

No one has any right to know your secrets. Everyone's done bad things, but that doesn't make them bad people. The only thing that matters is that you learn from your mistakes and treat people right moving forward.

It's no one's business what you did before. Just what you do now. It's not bad to want to be better.

[Faith hasn't told anyone about her darker past. No one but Friday, but she left. And she's got no plans to tell anyone else. She wants to be a different person here. Doesn't want to be the one everyone expected to mess up and become a killer again.]

it's not bad to want to improve, but you shouldn't just forget about whatever happened either.

you're going to get a whole bunch of conflicting answers though

It's your choice at the end of the day. You should be allowed to decide if you want to speak about it, who to tell, and whether or not you want to make amends and how.

None of us can force you to decide and no one should either. It isn't bad that you want to start over. I personally - emphasis on 'personally' - think everyone does at some point in their life after something happens.

Edited 2018-02-17 05:29 (UTC)

sometimes it's better to keep things to yourself
or else you might make the people around you suffer too without meaning to. i dont think theres anything wrong with that. or if there is..i dont know maybe its okay if it helps other people in the long run.

or maybe sometimes we're just supposed to suffer on our own. i dont know

i dont know about making your life better. if we're here to be punished then im not sure if second chances are a thing.

(Wow Eddie. Bleak much? Except he's...pretty much thinking similarly as Will, so.)

That's up to you.

[w h a t.]

i don't...think that's true at all.

i do trust them. i mean, if anyone else came here from where i'm from, i'd want to trust them. except maybe my mom.

depending on who they are?

[Oh Max. The best diplomat.]

i meant...people who know me. who know hawkins and the people there and stuff.

but maybe new people too. if you don't tell people stuff about yourself -- important stuff -- isn't that kind of like lying?

what if it's really REALLY bad? shouldn't people know so they can...be careful around you?

what if it hurt people? what if they died?

[Asking the real hard questions.]

that's good though. if i get all the answers, i can sort of mush them together to get the best ones.

what should i do about what happened? if it was really terrible, i mean.

I wouldn't say that. People should only be careful around you if you feel like you're going to do it again. Otherwise, there's nothing to look out for.

oh. what do i do if i DO want to? or if anyone wants to?

did something happen to you? [He's a kid, so he doesn't quite have the nuances of stuff like..."tact".]

i mean...i guess ultimately, yeah. but what do YOU think?

[It is...truly alarming how similar their thought patterns are.]

i guess i don't know whether it's worse to make them suffer now or...later. there's enough suffering here.

DO you think we're here to be punished?

they might be hurt later...when they find out what the truth is. and that i didn't tell them.

What you think is unforgivable may not be considered unforgivable by someone else.

Are you human?

Well, when it comes to this kinda situation, I think you gotta know yourself. If you're the kinda person who can keep things quiet, and you're prepared for what happens if they find out... that's one thing.

But it sounds like you're already thinkin' about what'll happen if they do find out. That ain't a bad thing -- means you still got a conscience.

We talking people you're close with here?

(That was either a very good thing or a very bad thing. Though sometimes it was best to figure out these sort of things with people who understood.)

i dont know. i was honest with my friends and they wound up here because of me. or i figure anyway. so. im probably not the best person to talk to about this with.

i don't think this place exists solely to punish people. but I think I'm here to be punished. If that makes sense. although I'd still rather be here than home. I think the punishing part is the whole talking thing. what's that saying? Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Maybe we're in the Speak No Evil phase before we move onto the next two.

who knows though though. thats just a theory.

[ she has gotten so used to having point blank questions thrown her way - thanks lune! and thesauri! - that she's mostly unfazed.

mostly. ]

If you want than it helps to figure out why you want to do it in the first place. What caused this to be brought it up. It can give you an idea how to go about this.

And to answer your question - Yes. It's happened to me.

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