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My friend was crying about losing a plant...

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Yea so when my friend got on the bus today, he was almost crying, my first guess was all the computors and tvs in his house were down, but I was wrong. His mom had left a plant that he had had for years outside and when it got frost on it, she thought it was dead, so she threw it away. And it just so happened that it was trash day, so he was crying and all on the bus today about how he would never forgive his mom for this. Now this friend(who is a 9th grader like me) acts a lot like a 3rd grader except for the fact that he knows a lot about computors. Hes only my friend because we play at brawl and pokemon. So at lunch that day he was his normal self and same on the ride back home. So let me ask you, what do you think?
 
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Hey; that plant might have been really special to him. Maybe he talked to it when he was lonely. :)
 
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Some people really get into gardening. I dabble in raising carnivorous plants; I got upset when my Nepenthes couldn't make the transition from outdoors to indoors during the winter and died, and when I left the Sarracenia I'd just bought during a heat wave to go camping and my mom forgot to water it. If you put time and effort into raising anything, it's going to hurt if it's suddenly gone. :[
 
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so.

he obviously had a heart and liked that plant.

i was very sad when jim died. i felt for him.
 
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It's very easy to become attached to things, and it will hurt once they are gone...
 
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People get attached to things like that, like how I get attached to my Pokemon. :P
It's really nothing to get worked up over, anyway.
 
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Like what everyone else said, when you get attached to something, it hurts to see it go. I got that way when I had this Venus Fly Trap, which I named (being unoriginal) Venus. One day, my grandmother forgot to water Venus or get any flies for it. She then threw it away. She made up for it by buying me a Teddy Cactus named (again, unoriginal) Teddy. I sort of forgot what happened to Teddy, all I know is that it disappeared.
 
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It is a little silly to cry over a plant, but hey, it's probably a very special plant.... :)
I get attached to random inanimate objects and stuff like that very easily, so I can sympathize with the guy a bit.
He probably cared for the plant, watered it, and it was special because he raised it.
 
Yeah, it's really easy to love a plant and miss it when it dies, or any special inanimate object, like my pokemon or little dragons in my sig, if they 'died' I would be very sad.
 
I insisted on keeping the license plate from our old car, and a shingle when we got a new roof. I really don't think that caring about a plant is any weirder.
 
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Spaekle Oddberry said:
Some people really get into gardening. I dabble in raising carnivorous plants; I got upset when my Nepenthes couldn't make the transition from outdoors to indoors during the winter and died, and when I left the Sarracenia I'd just bought during a heat wave to go camping and my mom forgot to water it. If you put time and effort into raising anything, it's going to hurt if it's suddenly gone. :[
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I remeber that second thing - didn't you post in the CC about it?

Anyway, I guess raising a living thing, plant or not, was a very emotional experiance for this guy.

I remember when I was being shuffled from parent to grandparent to other parent, that I threw a temper tantrum when my Mom tried to throw out my shoes because they were the only constant n my life. So.

Oh yeah, and I cried when my Blue's battery died.
 
You'd be surprised at how much emotion you can put into gardening if you really try your hand at it.
 
Might've been my avatar in disguise. SHHHHHHH...

Some people can be obsessed with inanimate objects. I don't find it that odd for one to be attached to a somewhat inanimate object that is alive.
 
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I insisted on keeping the license plate from our old car, and a shingle when we got a new roof. I really don't think that caring about a plant is any weirder.
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I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN.

My dad thought it was silly to keep the, well, um...

You know those plastic things that they sometimes have along the tops of truck windows to keep out the rain? Yeah, well, my dad was ripping them off our Nissan because they were cracking and not really working, but for some reason I had a weird attachment to them. They're still in my room leaning against the wall...

For the plant thing-well, as you can see I sympathize-, I think it's perfectly natural. If you spend time nurturing something, or even if you spend so much time that it's extremely familiar, then when it's gone you'll miss it, and feel sad. Like my team on Silver that got erased. Anyway, I think I'd miss a plant too if I'd been in the kid's position.
 
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