I can tell that I am loved. He speaks to me in those ways that I recognize. I can observe it from a distance, and yet I know I am still intricately involved in the process, even though essential parts of me are missing ( Read more... )

There have been so many times in my life where I have felt left behind. I have turned around and things have changed--with my friends, with a lover--while I have not. The time that has passed has not been sufficient to explain what has happened. I don't understand how it is that someone else's feelings can change so suddenly, while I am left ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when I am feeling favorably disposed towards certain aspects of the past, I tempt myself. I tell myself that it would be OK just to slip back through time to one of those moments where I was happy, to let myself smother in it. I try to concentrate really hard on a good happy memory from the midst of that dark time, and tell myself I ( Read more... )

Being disappointed by people may be the worst disappointment there is.

But, disappointment is borne out of expectation. Expectation is borne out of imagination. Imagining someone to be something they are not is the fault of the imaginer, not the imagined.

But sad, nonetheless, to realize that the imagined is truly only imaginary.

sigh

Once upon a time, there was a girl. The girl was broken. Just a little, and she was convinced that she was OK. So, she hobbled around, wincing at every step, saying to herself "I am OK, this will get better!" She came upon a boy. He was broken too. But he knew it. When the girl came upon him, he was in the process of having a few serious ( Read more... )

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I made a statement here that we can only learn and grow through difficult experiences. I realize that it is not quite true. I think positive experiences, ones that we want and expect, are much less likely to offer profound change, but I think that they can. For example, a person who has had many repeatedly difficult times with relationships, may ( Read more... )

LJ Interests meme results

1. awareness:
   As far as I am concerned, this is what it is all about.
2. being constructive:
   Even when you're goal is destructive (of a opressive regime, for example), it's possible to be constructive. What's the point of knocking something down if you can't put something beautiful in its place?
3. boudicca:
   In AD 61, Boadicea (or ( Read more... )

Hypothesis: This is an educated guess based upon observation. It is a rational explanation of a single event or phenomenon based upon what is observed, but which has not been proved. Most hypotheses can be supported or refuted by experimentation or continued observation. I have a new hypothesis. I don't know how to go about testing it. Maybe we ( Read more... )