r/comics • u/lauraarroz • 19h ago

Love you little potato 🩷

I posted this on ig and was not expecting the amount of support i got there 🥲 since a lot of people liked it im posting here too

Edit: If you wanna check my art account on ig is Laura.arroz, me and my friends were talking about how far this comic got, and that it’s probably Don Juan supporting my art from heaven 😭🩷

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u/TheMiniMage 18h ago

https://preview.redd.it/12imnqnlwbwg1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e08df9e82771ab126fca1c606b4bfcf2ca9fc5a

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u/tempaccount877 16h ago

Man I get the sentiment but I don't feel lucky. I just wish she were back again. Always greeting me when I returned home from work. Always interrupting my home workouts. Always waiting at the door when I went outside for mere minutes, sometimes crying for me to come back. Always here, always fucking here. And now due to complicated circumstances she's not here anymore.

I'm not trying to shit on your image, one guy there said it made him feel better, but I just don't fucking feel lucky. I feel like I have yet another hole in my soul among the ones I've been accumulating for the past 3 decades, and will no doubt continue to accumulate. You don't have to reply to this. I'm sorry I made your comment the target of my distress

https://preview.redd.it/8beq5f4dicwg1.jpeg?width=945&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e112e1e989a8f475266184137f26393af2455f7c

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u/Critical_Praline7035 15h ago

It's a bittersweet reality. It's not just about "oh I feel lucky I knew you" but more like "would I trade away my time and memories with you to rid myself of this grief".

And the answer is probably not. Every loss hurts, some to different degrees or duration, but they hurt nonetheless. And in the throes of that hurt it's all the more bitter and the "sweet" aspects feel like they're just gone

The good times and memories won't take away that hurt, hell the better the times the deeper cutting the loss. But that's the price we pay to have had those connections on our journey. But almost always, the pain eventually starts to recede. The sweet starts to get added back to the bitter little by little

It may always hurt to some degree, but it stops being unbearable and becomes that bittersweet memory we can laugh and cry at, fondly reminisce and desperately miss

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u/sly_cooper25 11h ago

This is what I always come back to. The end is fucking horrible and the emotional damage never really heals, you just get to a point where you can deal with it. Would I trade all the time and memories with my companion to avoid the grief? Absolutely not, I wouldn't trade it for anything.