Oh yeah. That one. I had some things to say about the ending, from the perspective of someone with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
tl;dr version: going through your life believing that anything you do could magically doom or save the entire world in ways that have no causal connection to that actions themselves will really fuck you up.
Walton herself showed up in the comments to comment that she does live her life that way (specifically, she said she lives as if each choice is simultaneously world-changing and insignificant), and it doesn't fuck her up, it makes her happy. So.
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Date: 2015-01-09 10:41 pm (UTC)tl;dr version: going through your life believing that anything you do could magically doom or save the entire world in ways that have no causal connection to that actions themselves will really fuck you up.
Walton herself showed up in the comments to comment that she does live her life that way (specifically, she said she lives as if each choice is simultaneously world-changing and insignificant), and it doesn't fuck her up, it makes her happy. So.