true thing, not a new thing

(omg this is from back in april!)

This is such a great take that I don't even have anything much to add.

👏🏽

Also stage version of spirited away is a crazy pull!! It looks absolutely amazing yet I've never watched it ... I literally didn't watch the animated version until I had to write an essay about it and I am not proud of that 😞😞

about the interview you posted about, I don't think it's anywhere atm. Mayybe try the wayback machine for YouTube? There's this one ( https://youtu.be/ywgdyAskkek?is=tbGJN7FC-FJKcyUh ) with what looks like the same outfit but that's the closest I could get

I'm curious now sooo update if you find it ? :>

Yes! I've seen that interview of him and Sophie (she's so cute!!) where he's in that same outfit so it has to be promo related to that same day and event. And I remembered this picture where he's in the same room but in a suit before the gala so it's definitely for Chopard/Cannes but the only interview I've ever seen is the one you linked and not an interview that takes place in this gorgeous room 🥲

Omg first of all I feel so honored that you came to me for advice 🥹

I have also had a bipolar boo thing in the past (and also have a friend with bipolar disorder under the thumb of their overbearing mother)! We were vaguely friends who met through work/school and then started seeing each other (read: sleeping together). I really cared for him but he was also quite distant and could be inconsistent. Pretty early on he told me that he suffered from bipolar disorder (as well as PTSD from previous military service) but even then, I didn't realize what that could mean for us as two people relating to each other, even in those early stages of are we or aren't we?

We were off and on for several months and he would disappear and then come back and sometimes he would even leave my place in the middle of our dates or in the middle of the night and I would take it to heart because I was almost a decade younger than I am now. We ended up getting back together super briefly a few years later and he confided in me that at one point when he just disappeared, he had actually had a really difficult time with a bout of depression that saw him hospitalized. I also saw him be manic without understanding what that meant. All I knew was that he would be in a great mood and I might feel like it was love and I was finally the center of his universe....and then he'd be gone.

I've had this happen similarly with my friend but the difference is that she cares enough/is usually in a good enough mental space to talk to communicate with me more openly than he did.

So I say all of this to say that it can be an absolutely beautiful reaction to someone else's pain to immediately give them grace and empathize - HOWEVER, it is not your place to heal him or feel guilty. Unfortunately bipolar disorder tends to lead to a person who is unpredictable and it's not their fault. You can know he has bipolar disorder and an overbearing mother who will be a part of the equation until kingdom comes or she passes (whichever comes first) but you can't be Captain Save a Hoe for someone who doesn't want to be saved.

I advise that you can check in if you want and you feel you're able to do that without stretching yourself too thin or going crazy or taking it to heart but you should also continue to live your life. You should know that it's fair to feel annoyed and put out and turned off and ignored. Like you said, you have healed and that's fair. I also got to a point where I healed and it felt like more trouble than it was worth to try to be available and care for someone who couldn't care for me in the same way.

Healing for me was about protecting and respecting what I had fixed within myself because my time and my attention span is finite and even if my heart is elastic, it still deserves to be loved and taken care of.