Sometimes people will go away because they're not ready to deal with something yet. They need a period of space before they're capable of tackling it. Multiples can let other people run the body but singles do the same thing by spending all of their time sleeping or doing a lot of mind numbing busy work or things like that. Plus sometimes you just need a vacation and taking that break is all you need to function better.
It is an advantage of being multiple. We also have people with odd quirks that would be problems if they were single but work fine because there are enough of us to work around them. We can see why you would be a bit jealous. There are disadvantages, of course. One being that having people around to take over the body when you want them to also means they're around to take over the body when you don't want them to. (Not meaning that they're stealing the body and doing nefarious things but even little things like having to go for a walk when you want to read a book can be annoying.) We don't understand why single people would want to be multiple but we equally don't understand why multiple people would want to be single.
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Date: 2005-06-20 06:33 pm (UTC)It is an advantage of being multiple. We also have people with odd quirks that would be problems if they were single but work fine because there are enough of us to work around them. We can see why you would be a bit jealous. There are disadvantages, of course. One being that having people around to take over the body when you want them to also means they're around to take over the body when you don't want them to. (Not meaning that they're stealing the body and doing nefarious things but even little things like having to go for a walk when you want to read a book can be annoying.) We don't understand why single people would want to be multiple but we equally don't understand why multiple people would want to be single.