Telework Yotabanashi - Vol. 1 Ch. 18 - Waiting

[yuta987]

it's too short "that what she said"

 

[kiero13]

I just remembered that they're already married and that this is just a retelling of their love story, but wow to be able to forget that and be genuinely nervous of the current plot shows how amazing the storytelling is.

But this may be just for me.

 

[Kirin-kun]

Bet she just didn't have signal.

 

[winterume]

Your so called girlfriend disappears and doesn't answer any messages for weeks... and you consider worrying about that, abandonment issues?

and i think youve finally get a gf after all those years, its just a personal opinion but its normal to be that anxious, people would say thats being obsessive or over reacting but, we cant control emotions so..

 

[L33tSkeels]

Hope = Restored

 

[Buffdoge]

Your so called girlfriend disappears and doesn't answer any messages for weeks... and you consider worrying about that, abandonment issues?

He got confused between concern and abandonment issues

 

[litmim]

it's discord actually

"It's discord actually"

 

[outinthegardener]

it's discord actually

are you trying to get us sued?! 😜

 

[AngelVera]

Aww shoot 😭 Not me relating to his inner turmoil…

Spoiler: Not a Spoiler! Just a long explanation/monologue 🙂

I wasn’t in any romantic relationship, but it resonates with what I was feeling when I had to isolate myself after catching COVID last year. That did not do me any favors, since I was also just coming back from (what I’m assuming was) a big nervous breakdown, one that was months in the making. Like the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of my mental health. Killed any motivation I had for most of everyday life and made communicating with others (friends, family and DEFINITELY school) hell. I’m Still trying to get back from it all 😞 It’s exhausting work but… I’m trying to stay positive

But that feeling of loneliness… the isolation… the slippery slope to negative thoughts… God, it was unpleasant (Severe Understatement 🙃 haha).

Thank you for your hard work! Looking forward to seeing what’s been up with Natsu x)

 

[Regnells]

Non chad behaviour from Natsu

 

[gelato_lo]

I felt this before, it was not pleasant.

 

[Northern]

he got some abandonment issues

And now thanks to this chapter I've got abandonment issues too. ;_;

 

[AkodoRyu]

people would say thats being obsessive or over reacting but, we cant control emotions so..

It might be obsessive if it's an afternoon out or a weekend and you start freaking out. 40 days with no contact? Completely reasonable to be anxious.

 

[winterume]

It might be obsessive if it's an afternoon out or a weekend and you start freaking out. 40 days with no contact? Completely reasonable to be anxious.

contacting the univ to check on a person is pretty reasonable for them to decline your request but, hey you do stupid things when youre in love, i get how anxious mc is.

pretty much a flag if you'd get gaslighted by being worried and calls you having issues tbh, id hate to be with that kind of person just you being worried for them, and abandonment issues isnt a light thing to get called out on, thats a f-ing trauma to begin with.

 

[Daerovius]

Nice ! She found some time to contact between getting railed by random dudes

 

[Wildtale]

Honestly? I have a hard time labeling this as an "abandonment issue". If this is set in the timeframe I think it is, then I feel like it's perfectly reasonable to be worried after the trip was extended beyond its expected timeframe with no contact.

But that's just me~

 

[donlanthirion]

Hmmm... I don't feel like I should say anything, really, but it seems that some comments are either too cynical or immature. After all, this is the Internet, right?

tl;dr; stop overthinking the relationship dynamics: (1) it is not a competition and (2) it's impossible to avoid suffering. Go read Buddha by Osamu Tezuka, he is better than for explaining this. Also, it's reasonable to be concerned about someone who you can't contact after a long time, especially during a pandemic. It seems that people forgot that this story is set at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when people didn't know much about what was going on. This chapter happens when lockdowns started, and we have yet to see the GTPC (Great Toilet Paper Crisis).

[edit] I forgot to mention the pandemic LOL

Spoiler: An old-man story~

Anyway, my unsolicited relationship advice is that relationships are not competition. It's not about being in control or being a zero-sum game. That is a dangerous mindset because it prevents you from deeply connecting with another person. Sure enough, you can blame the other hypothetical person (I know you are single LOL) for being "manipulative" or whatever adjective you want to use. However, by always acting like that, you are robbing yourself of having a meaningful relationship.

Now, about comments wondering about the nature of the archeological expedition... I have no clue, sorry! =P

However, I do have an idea about what biologists do -- even though I am not a biologist myself. When I was doing my master's degree back in Brazil, I met a girl who was doing her master's in biology and her supervisor used to do expeditions to the jungle to collect data. Data in this context can mean from actual sensor data to organic samples. Anyway, she told me about some of her experiences and why she decided to stop that kind of research and work on something else.

Before continuing that story, I have to note that researchers should have long-distance communication devices that use satellite connections so they always have an emergency hotline. After all, they are not "treasure hunters"; they are employees working on the field, so their safety must be ensured. Not all universities have the same access to all sorts of equipment, though, so let's leave this topic at that.

Continuing. So this girl went to the jungle with other graduate students to do research. They hired a local "material" (literally a "jungle man") to guide them so they could avoid being lost. She said that she was afraid of meeting some venomous or poisonous animal, but her biggest fear was of meeting... People. More specifically, meeting illegal hunters who would rather kill her than risk being denounced to the authorities.

Moving on, her research group had placed some cages in the jungle a while before and they went there to check them. And as she was getting back to her camp, she saw a (un)friendly snake. My memory fails me (it's been some 10 years ago LOL -- yeah, me old!), but I believe it was either an "Urutu-Cruzeiro" or a "Jararaca-Cruzeiro" -- I only remember the term "cruzeiro", lit. "cross-shaped", referring to the cross-like pattern on its head. Anyway, there was the snake and the doubt: is this the real poisonous snake, or the false relative that looked similar but wasn't poisonous? She didn't have much time to observe because the snake was going towards her and she was occupied panicking.

I am sorry to let you guys down but I forgot if she managed to outrun the snake or if the mateiro scared the snake away. Anyway, she was lucky because it was the real snake. She could have died there, because even though they had the means to call for a helicopter, who knows how much time it would take to get there?

So, yeah, this experience -- and the fact that one of her seniors was a girl full of scars from insect bites, which she didn't want for herself -- made her finish her field research as soon as possible and rethink her career.

So, yeah, I think it's pretty reasonable of him to be concerned with her safety. I also think it's reasonable for the university to not disclose personal information to unrelated parties. Archeology expeditions don't sound like the safest kind of job either. There are treasure hunters everywhere, and don't start blaming small countries for not having resources to combat that, or for being corrupt; everyone is guilty of maintaining this terrible system -- yes, I am looking at you, The British Museum...

[edit] Oh, and don't forget the pandemics! Anyone would feel anxious knowing that a loved one went on a trip, hasn't contacted you, and is 10 days late. Right when lockdowns are beginning to happen.

Why should you believe me? Because you want to. Or you don't. Anyway, have a good day.

 

[openeeyes]

Thank fuck 4/6 April. I got sad at the thought of having to wait 3 months

 

[Panino]

Shill mah dude geez, it's an archeological expedition in the middle of nowhere, she very likely just didn't have phone signal.

City boy problems much? Dude would not survive a day out in the country side.

I would also be concerned.
It's a planned event, with a fixed date to start and finish. If she said that it would be X days and I didn't heard any news after X+10 days, there would be a high probability that something went wrong.

But it seems the University has a working contact line with someone from her group.

 

[RexNemorensis]

Those last few pages hit way closer to home than I'd like for such a lighthearted manga. Poor dude, I know exactly how he feels.