The Doll Who Learned Loneliness

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The Doll Who Learned Loneliness

There once was a doll who lived alone in a field of flowers. Having lived there for a very long time, the doll was content and never made an attempt to see the outside world.

The doll simply spent her days chasing the animals that lived in the field, dancing among the flowers that grew in the field, and spending time quietly watching the river that flowed through the field. There was even another doll that lived in the river whom she could see looking up from the water when she climbed up onto a sturdy old log embedded in the near bank.

The other doll had always been living in the river for as long as the doll could remember. The doll would occasionally come to spend a lazy afternoon talking to the other doll as she watched the clouds float by underneath the river's current. The other doll didn't seem to talk much, but she was a great listener. Talking to her was one of the doll's favorite pastimes.

And so it was in this way that the doll lived her idyllic life. That is until one day, when a girl came to the field looking for flowers to pick. It was then that she happened upon the doll chasing a rabbit. The girl was surprised, as she had never seen a doll that could move on its own before. The doll was surprised, as she had never seen a human girl before.

It was the girl who spoke first and asked the doll if she had a name. This puzzled the doll, as she had never really thought about such a thing. She was herself, so she had never needed to call herself. She said she didn't have one, and so the girl named the doll Lucy.

Lucy noticed the girl's flower basket, and asked if the girl was picking flowers. The girl self-consciously acknowledged her intent, worried that Lucy might object. It seemed this was Lucy's field, after all. However, Lucy was very unselfish. She even offered to show the girl where the flowers grew the biggest and brightest! It was the least she could do as payment for her fancy new name, after all.

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And so Lucy and the girl spent the rest of the day playing. When the sun began to set and they had to part ways, the girl said she'd be back.

Indeed, the girl did come back the next day and played some more. And the day after that, too. The two became friends for a while, until one day the girl stopped coming to the field. The days went by, and when the girl hadn't returned for a very long time, Lucy realized that she would probably never return. Even so, Lucy's cheerful manner recovered fairly quickly. After all, she had learned about humans, and she had even gotten a name!

Knowing nothing else, Lucy returned to her solitary lifestyle. She didn't mind, except it seemed like something was missing now. She couldn't quite put her finger on what was wrong. It was a subtle kind of loss. She found herself spending more time by the riverside with the other doll (who still had no name) while trying to figure it out. Eventually, Lucy gave up, and instead decided to explore new pastimes with which to distract herself.

It was while Lucy was trying to catch frogs near the river one day that she met a new human girl. This time the doll was able to introduce herself properly. The two became friends quickly, and the new girl became a frequent visitor to the field.

Lucy was still very much interested in humans. She and the girl were talking one day when the girl mentioned her mother. This interested Lucy, as she'd never had a mother. Curious, she asked the girl to take her home to meet the girl's family. The girl thought it didn't sound like a bad idea. And so, chatting cheerfully, they headed for the nearby human village together. Lucy and the girl didn't get very far past the point where the tall grasses of the field ended when the doll suddenly fell asleep mid-sentence.

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This terrified the girl. The once-lively Lucy was now just a normal doll with hollow eyes and stiff limbs. Frightened, the girl picked Lucy up and returned her to the middle of field, resting her carefully against a tree stump. Without waiting, the girl ran from the field, never to return.

Lucy awoke the next day as if nothing bad had happened. She remembered the day before and she remembered trying to leave the field with the girl, but she remembered nothing after that. On top of that, the girl was nowhere to be seen. Lucy waited, but the girl didn't return that day, or the next day, or the day after.

This was troubling to Lucy, though again she couldn't put her finger on why. All she could do was return to what she did before, and that's what she did.

This pattern of new and strange human girls coming to the field for a while and then mysteriously vanishing happened several more times before Lucy began to find herself dreading humans for some reason. Even when she thought about it, she couldn't figure out why it bothered her when they stopped coming, or what this feeling of emptiness was, or why it got worse each time. Unwittingly, she had learned loneliness. It wasn't the only lesson she'd learned from humans, of course, but it was certainly the strongest.

And so Lucy became a much shyer doll. She didn't know if it was her fault that humans would stop coming, or if it simply a result of the type of humans who came to the field. All she could reason was that she would probably be better off if she avoided humans from that point forward. With that in mind, she began to sleep during the day, hiding inside of a hollowed-out tree stump and only coming out during the night to play.

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One night, Lucy came out of her stump to find a wolf sitting in the middle of the field, watching the stars. Never having seen a wolf before (and not knowing that it was called a wolf), Lucy was curious. Even so, her experience with humans had given her a stronger fear of the unknown. While Lucy was struggling with this new emotion, the wolf took notice of her and started to move in her direction to investigate. Panicking, Lucy immediately fled back into her tree stump.

Lucy didn't sleep at all for the next three days and nights. She simply stayed in her stump, wondering what was wrong with her. She had developed so many strange feelings because of humans. She was afraid. Afraid of sitting still and being lonely, but also afraid of going out and making new friends who would probably eventually leave her alone again.

Lucy thought hard for those three days and nights, and on the morning of the fourth day she remembered the fun she used to have with the other doll that lived in the river. Knowing the other doll was very reliable, Lucy decided that she would ask her if she knew what to do.

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Lucy thought hard for those three days and nights, and on the morning of the fourth day she remembered the fun she used to have with the other doll that lived in the river. Knowing the other doll was very reliable, Lucy decided that she would ask her if she knew what to do.

And so Lucy came to the old log hanging over the river and looked over the edge. The other doll was there as always, returning her gaze, but now she looked a lot worse-off than she had in the past. She was a lot more ragged, and she seemed more sad. Armed with her new knowledge of feelings, Lucy decided that the other doll looked lonely too.

That was when an idea struck Lucy. The other doll had been in this field for at least as long as Lucy had. Why couldn't the two be friends? With a renewed enthusiasm, Lucy made her proposal to the other doll.

When Lucy finished her story, she imagined the other doll seemed to look more hopeful than she had a few moments ago. Looking for an agreement, Lucy nodded at the doll, who nodded in reply. Overjoyed, Lucy left her loneliness behind as she let go of the log and plunged forward into her new life with her reliable old friend.

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That's it?

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That's a really good story anon.
Did you write that yourself?

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>>4645312
Quick google result in Zeromaid

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>>4645420
Well, it was a nice five or ten minutes or so spent. Thanks for sharing.

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Alice tiem anyoone?

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[deleted !!b2lauPvC6UT No.]

>>4645627
FUCK YEAH!

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wer is moor

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I thought it was about Medicine.

[Marisa Kirisame !MARiSADA4A No.]

Moral of the story : We are all introverted self hating people who are afraid of social interaction.
/jp/ is the other doll at the river.
/jp/ meetup, go.

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>>4646557
in Morocco

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I think it's like:
Everyone you ever come to like or love in life will move on. It's hard lesson to learn to deal with (if you had friends in middle school / high school, remember what a big deal it was if they moved away, or one of you had to change schools?)
As you get older you come to realize this is inevitable and it's smart not to get too attached
As you get older you also start to see people's true nature. Most are like wolves who just want to use you.
When you try to go too far into the real world, you fall asleep. Your self is numbed by the conformity and the tedium of working and living stale lives with all the stale normalfags.
Many of us instead fall back into fear and retreat to ourselves. If you do so enough, you lose track of time and all direction. Even people who do work and go outside, you may feel like your are hiding away yourself in your mind as sanctuary.
The other, quiet doll in the river is ourselves. Towards the end her reflection is weary and battered. The adult psyche after seeing how terrible the world really is. It is not as beautiful and peaceful as you thought when you were young.
The ultimate answer is to deny everything and embrace yourself, the only person who will truly always be your friend.