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What would you do in Padraic's shoes?

posted 2 years ago by Heisenberg (6462)
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Allegory aside.
Your best friend all of a sudden decides you are bad and ghosts you like this. You are bad now!
(Any reason is good. You just became stupid or boring or uncool or evil or whatever he decided)

What would you do?

I totally sympathized with Colin's character Padraic.
Colm was an uber dick, and mean and evil too.
He acted like a psycho, and I would just take it that I am better off without a piece of shit like him in my life. Feck him!

[–] SteveRes (488) 3 months ago

Colm was obviously having serious mental health issues. There's a reason the Priest kept bringing up his "despair"...

That said he handled the whole thing abysmally. If they lived in Dublin it wouldn't be so much of a problem, it's easy to avoid people in a city. But on a small island with only one pub and practically being next door neighbours his brutal approach would never work. The younger guy was right when he said "what is he, 12?" It was a childish way to go about it.

It would have been better if he explained to Pod that he needed a lot of space and alone time and maybe agree to meet up at the pub with him once a week to keep the damn peace.. and keep his fingers. But I feel he was on a mission of self destruction through despair. He didn't even try to stop Pod burning his house down.