A question

[monozukineko.livejournal.com]

..more a pondering, really.

Talking with a friend today raised a very good question for myself and possibly other soulbonded, outsourced, borrowed, etc types.

What would we do if the people from our memories came face to face with us? People who don't necessarily exist outside fiction, suddenly as real as we are. People we have loved, hated, grown up with, laughed with, or lost. People who are so much a part of our lives as we remember them.

Would we even be able to find the presence of mind to do anything? The words, the breath, the initiative to make a move?

What if.

Comments

[kasiawhisper.livejournal.com]

people do come in contact with others from their past.. it's really not such an uncommon thing.. ^_^

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

It happens quite often, in our experience. I myself have met at least a dozen people from my own past/memories (although not from a fictional source) - I even married one of them, and we're still together after 21 years. Several others of my bonds/headmates have also been reunited with people they have loved in the past, and they have resumed those relationships again.

[luwana.livejournal.com]

You know mostly how I feel on this.

With past loves it's easier, though I'd imagine painful if changes have happened. The complicated moments are when it's people who royally fucked us up, yet we can't avoid.

Those who have met past loves have had it easy.


~Selene

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

My current companions are all in this category.

I met one in 1982 briefly and partnered with her
in 1997.

Another one was a sometimes conversation partner
on the train 15 years before we partnered.

They BOTH drastically changed their appearances.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

My advice is to be careful. People will say all sorts of things-- "oh, yes, I was that person from your past life!" etc-- if they think it's what you want to hear. One can get seriously screwed over in such situations; even if you're not being manipulated as such, you can get hurt if someone is not what they seem to be, although they may be sincerely mistaken. (Yeah, some of us speak from experience here.)