Haunted

[riddlestook]

Oh, how things are haunted as of late. I find old lovers coming back to me...the memories, the unfulfilled desires, the failed expectations, the false promises, the dashed hopes. *sigh* I have reached the point where I am questioning the meaning of love, its definition. I do this every once in a while. I always get...well, somewhat...uncertain as

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[prognar]

Ugh, you're 17, don't expect to find true love or even understand it. Love is like mustard. Sure, someone can explain how it smells, and what it tastes like, but you only have a general idea of it, you're never certain what it is until you actually eat some mustard, then you're all "Hey! It's really mustard!"

I should go to bed or something :P

It's interesting...

[redgeomancer]

Bea, I have never been in love. I can say that easily, because it's true. So I don't know that I really can contribute much to analyzing your difficulties and helping you. But one thing that I have found, which is true all too often for me in any emotional situation, is that there is a tendency to emhasize the romantic. When I say romantic, I have in mind an older meaning than the contemporary "romantic" which refers to feelings of idealized love and affection. I say romantic as something assosciated with the romantic period - emotion in general which is made larger than life. I'm sure you know what I mean. But I really do think that there's a tendency in our culture, or even in our psyche to emphasize that which we feel so that it becomes something larger than life - something romantic. I don't mean that people blow things out of proportion, no, that's not what I'm saying at all. I just think that emotions of any kind have a way of magnifying themselves, almost feeding on themselves if they are allowed to. If you feel

Good point

[dukhat]

That is quite an astute if poorly communicated observation. Luckily, I understood what you were saying because I can think like you if I so choose. I embrace the emotion feedback loop and dramatization. Damn, thinking like you makes me communicate as poorly as you.