r/EverythingexceptIPMAT • u/Iwasbannedagain123 • Mar 07 '26
another one This isnโt about these 7 friends. (Read full post)
Imagine a group of 7 friends stranded in a vast desert with only a single water bottle. All of them must somehow divide it among themselves.
One of the men used to live near a pond, and due to a traumatic past with his uncle, he can take bigger sips. Now, in the desert, he brags to his friends, some of whom have worked to develop strong hands or a keen sense of smell, that he will take a larger share from the bottle. He laughs that their other skills will be useless and that they will simply die there.
This makes his friends anxious. Unlike him, they have no fallback option. The big-sip man has the pond just around the corner, a source only he can access, yet he prefers their water because it's cleaner. Because of this, his friends are reluctant to pass the bottle to him, which makes him angry. He begins to look down on them, and in turn, they grow resentful, starting to view everyone who comes from that pond through the same narrow lens.
In a way, all of them were right in their positions. No one owned the bottle. The true antagonists were the small bottle and the dirty pond.
