Altoecko has not happy with some of the decisions that his friends were making because he viewed them as self destructive. Some would say he is supporting his friends as such.

The "to each his own" was from my postion that supporting your friends might actually be accepting their self destructive behavior, not because you are apathetic but rather because you value that each person gets to make the decisions for their lives (to each their own) and these are the decisions THEY are making for THEIR own lives.

i found your original post interesting reading, Alt. i genuinely did. i sat there and tried to work out where and how i identified, and where and how i didn't. naturally, there were enough instances of each; we're different people.

it's interesting, one particular thing i noticed... about you trying to find a label to refer to yourself by. i always, always avoid doing that. i don't say 'i'm the ___ who called the other day', i say 'hi, i called the other day about ____'

^^; just one of those things i do, but it is still interesting, how i avoid the entire labels question.

as for the entire writing style thing Crythania mentioned, well... i don't really know anything at all about literary styles and suchlike. i found it perfectly readable and quite fitting, considering what and how you were writing.

as for being a child? i'm me. neither a child nor an adult, and i've always been and always will be that way. i never really understood why one would try to sit inside a stereotype like that. how one is even meant to gauge maturity.

*shrug*

as for apathy... heh. i don't know about that, either. there is, it appears, a remarkable amount i don't know. but then i don't believe i should be asking myself if i am apathetic. i don't know, really.

i enjoyed reading what you said, though, partly because you were talking about yourself and people are often at their most interesting when doing that. partly because you do in fact write well, imo.

(On a slightly different note, i don't get why we're talking about his ex. That topic of discussion, like the discussion of his 'belief system', seems more appropriate for the Opinion forum than the Creativity one. as such, i'll be moving this thread to there if it carries on. it doesn't bother me at all either way, but i wanted to say before i did it.... Figured Alt might not want me to move it without saying. oh, the joys of being the moderator... )

... but thanks for posting, Alt. i came late to it, but.... yeah.

as usual, i found it absorbing reading.