how do you guys deal with that empty and weird feeling after finishing something you've read/watchd?
there is this strange emptiness that i feel when i finally finish a long book, tv series or video game. at first it's like, "okay, that was great" and then I'll be like, "sooo... what am I gonna do with the rest of my life?"
make art about it, write fics about it, make it my entire personality for a whole of three weeks, join online forums to talk about it, join clubs with people for it. rinse, recylce, repeat, until I find something else to hyperfixate on. reply
I accepted that feeling as a sense of loss now that this thing I was enjoying is done/over. That sense of emptyness feels to me like a sudden loss of excitement, happiness, or enjoyment. It helps when I think of it as a loss instead of emptyness for some reason. I think its because I think back on why I enjoyed it in that moment and somehow think t...... reply
