Dear Shirley, Earth Angel:

Very profound insight. Quite a few insights, all profound. I think being a molecular scientist working in a lab with like minded scientists makes a lot of sense and is fitting to my image of you. Being an environmental scientist on the side, whatever practical form it takes, makes sense as well. That nature is a big part of you, that you find refuge in nature, that you need to be alone in nature is very clear to me.

I understand your need to be alone in the silence of the night and early in the morning. Being around people is sometimes wonderful for people but it is often enough harmful, no doubt. So yes, alone time makes a whole lot of sense. You are insightful about what you need and what career would fit you.

I believe you answered my question about whether you think your dreams predict your future when you wrote: ” i feel like my dreams give me insight into my life and help me figure out what i’m truly feeling inside” – I am glad you wrote this. Your dreams give you insight into your life and help you figure out things- good. I am glad your dreams help YOU do the figuring out. I was afraid for a moment that you viewed your dreams as rigid instructions from above. The dreams give you insight and you are the one doing the thinking and evaluating.

You wrote: “i’m in the process of finding myself and while in the process, i’m not interested in intimate relationships.” That makes a lot of sense. A whole lot of people are so distracted by intimate relationships, caught in a trap for years and decades. It is wise of you, very wise to not engage in such. Maybe in the future if it suits you then. And if it does, then it will be a different relationship than the one you see between your parents. There will be no arguments, no ongoing anger and discontent. Oh, no, Shirley won’t stand for that. It will be a peaceful relationship with a lot of silence and time in nature.

anita