BananaPudding wrote:pandaphil wrote:While I don't have the feels as strongly as I did before, I can still work up a head of tears when I watch an emotional clip on Youtube, or listen to certain pieces of music. These days i'm more interested in speculating on how the story will continue.
I feel as though that's the natural progression. There is only so long you can just sit and feel something without either moving on to something else, or delving in deeper with speculation.
As these peoples say, it's a gradual change. The first day or so, I was completely internalised, wondering how to deal with the sudden loss of the story I was so invested in. Then you move on and start wondering why you feel the way you do, and there you have a choice; you can either continue to wallow is your aimless depressive state, or face the discontent head on and be inspired to make some changes.
Case in point, for a while after Emi's route I couldn't help but think of my own girlfriend and how, like Emi
she would cover up her struggles with personal demons by reacting angrily at any person who tried to show concern....namely me All I could think was how much it hurt me to always be pushed away like that, and get frustrated with how I couldn't seem to fix things and earn her trust. But soon enough I calmed down and realised that I didn't need to do anything major, just be there and promise I was only wanting to help out of concern, and I made changes in how I spoke to her and since then....while everything still isn't perfect, it's progress and she's a lot happier now.
tl;dnr: It takes some time and effort, but I find the eventual benefits to be worth any short-term struggle.
