Yeah, that’s a confidence-shatterer right there. Feels like going from Hero to Zero in nothing flat. Realizing that, no matter what you do, where you go, how good you think you are, that the game is rigged, and you aren’t a player, so to speak. Pretty sure celebrity children go through this, realizing that there’s a bodyguard or security always watching, sometimes covertly, just around the corner; that it’s fine when you scrape your knee, but you won’t be allowed to experience anything higher risk. As importantly, that your lovely feeling of freedom and adventure is a myth you’ve been ALLOWED to have.
Yeah, pretty hard downer, like being smashed in the confidence by a large brick. I feel REALLY sorry for Darius at this moment. Things like this hurt like a bomb.
Agreed, but still, that can be in some ways even worse: being given that feeling or taste of freedom, letting you THINK you have all that freedom, then to discover it’s curtailed? The old saying “Better to have never had than to have and then lose it” is very true here.
Hariman
Unfortunately, there ARE threats to Darius and his siblings/friends that warrant some of the over-protectiveness.
But… This hurts Darius right in the part of him that loved being a carefree, can do what he wants kid.
Darius does need some freedom, but also needs protected, both from himself and from his family’s enemies.
Mark Linimon
To see an excellent example of this, look up the movie “The Last Detail”. Great movie (an early Nicholson film) but boy is it a downer.
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5 thoughts on “Darius Chapter 17 01”
mikakyubi
Yeah, that’s a confidence-shatterer right there. Feels like going from Hero to Zero in nothing flat. Realizing that, no matter what you do, where you go, how good you think you are, that the game is rigged, and you aren’t a player, so to speak. Pretty sure celebrity children go through this, realizing that there’s a bodyguard or security always watching, sometimes covertly, just around the corner; that it’s fine when you scrape your knee, but you won’t be allowed to experience anything higher risk. As importantly, that your lovely feeling of freedom and adventure is a myth you’ve been ALLOWED to have.
Yeah, pretty hard downer, like being smashed in the confidence by a large brick. I feel REALLY sorry for Darius at this moment. Things like this hurt like a bomb.
Hrliss
At least they let him get that far.. that’s a lot further than most overly protected kids are allowed to go.
mikakyubi
Agreed, but still, that can be in some ways even worse: being given that feeling or taste of freedom, letting you THINK you have all that freedom, then to discover it’s curtailed? The old saying “Better to have never had than to have and then lose it” is very true here.
Hariman
Unfortunately, there ARE threats to Darius and his siblings/friends that warrant some of the over-protectiveness.
But… This hurts Darius right in the part of him that loved being a carefree, can do what he wants kid.
Darius does need some freedom, but also needs protected, both from himself and from his family’s enemies.
Mark Linimon
To see an excellent example of this, look up the movie “The Last Detail”. Great movie (an early Nicholson film) but boy is it a downer.
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