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Sep. 27th, 2005 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianRachel had her first brush with urban legend (of sorts), a meme of the sort of thing children tell each other because another child told them and it scared the wits out of them or upset them greatly, so they feel the need to pass it on.
In short: Three people were such great friends that they pledged that if one died, they would all die. Then one girl was killed in a car accident. The second (male? female?) took their own life by slicing their throat. The third was trying to decide what to do, and was near a river with sharp pointy rocks. A cat mauled him to death.
Ah! the pleasant things third grade girls discuss!
I explained a bit about urban legends and stories like that, as well as discussed why focusing on life is a bit more healthy than focusing on death - examples that came up in the discussion were Romeo & Juliet, my own Tribute to a Life Long Past (which deals with two people, one struggling through the loss of the other), Seamus Kennedy's Unicorn Song, some guy who was pinned up, died, and still had a positive attitude (when he could have dropped fiery mountains on those who killed him), The Life of Brian, and R'vanith, the rainbow dragon.
After two such discussions, some tears, and working herself up in knots that she might not get to sleep and might miss the bus and all she could think of was sad thoughts, she finally relaxed and worked her way past the stress and went back to bed.
In short: Three people were such great friends that they pledged that if one died, they would all die. Then one girl was killed in a car accident. The second (male? female?) took their own life by slicing their throat. The third was trying to decide what to do, and was near a river with sharp pointy rocks. A cat mauled him to death.
Ah! the pleasant things third grade girls discuss!
I explained a bit about urban legends and stories like that, as well as discussed why focusing on life is a bit more healthy than focusing on death - examples that came up in the discussion were Romeo & Juliet, my own Tribute to a Life Long Past (which deals with two people, one struggling through the loss of the other), Seamus Kennedy's Unicorn Song, some guy who was pinned up, died, and still had a positive attitude (when he could have dropped fiery mountains on those who killed him), The Life of Brian, and R'vanith, the rainbow dragon.
After two such discussions, some tears, and working herself up in knots that she might not get to sleep and might miss the bus and all she could think of was sad thoughts, she finally relaxed and worked her way past the stress and went back to bed.
