why the fuck
do we have to lose those dear to us? i seriousy doubt anyone can answer this without severe cold-hearted logic.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 21:48, 14 replies)

You're right, I can't think of anything beyond pointless aphorisms, trite clichés, or as you say, cold-hearted logic.
Well apart from this.

We don't actually lose them, per se. Who and what we are, both our bodies and what makes us... us becomes a part of everything. Entropy, innit?

And there is a school of thought saying a person is never truly dead until all the ripples of everything they did has petered out. So in that sense, the first humans who evolved are still with us.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Fri 14 Oct 2011, 21:57, closed)

yeah
but i was pissed when i posted that
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 10:17, closed)

I've got one going out and one coming in at the moment. Feels a bit Lion King-y, in its Circle of Lifeness. Nice as that is, I would swap in a heartbeat.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 22:01, closed)

Its not that you lose them, its that they hide from you because youre a mean bully.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 23:26, closed)

Because everyone dies.
My get out clause here is that it doesn't seem cold-hearted to me, because I'm not grieving. And am an emotionless robot.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 23:37, closed)

Because otherwise it would be like the most recent series of Torchwood, and that was shit.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 7:46, closed)

it was a bit

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 10:17, closed)

And when we lose them, they're always in the last place we look.

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 14:41, closed)

Well of course they are!
Once you find them, you don't keep looking, do you?
(Heggy, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 19:37, closed)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struldbrug
( moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 16:08, closed)

Either ...
you lose them or they lose you. Which would you rather it be?
(uncle_bud is not the jelly roll king., Sun 16 Oct 2011, 1:29, closed)

If there was not chance of losing them,
they wouldn't be so dear to us, would they?
(Heggy, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 19:37, closed)

good point

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 21:29, closed)