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  • #97091
    Wisdom
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    anita –

    i’m glad yesterday was a good discussion! for today, i emailed someone just to talk about records, but the whole thing turned out just to be a compliment and then a reply – which is totally fine!

    i have a math test tomorrow that i’m a bit intimidated about, but i’m hoping that it goes well. it’s logic so it’s pretty different from just doing arithmetic.

    i haven’t talked to the guy i like in a few days. it’s not exactly hard to get his attention. i guess that’s not the exact way to explain it. but it is hard to get him to talk to me. like just a regular conversation. i don’t know how to do it. i can’t tell if i’m too nervous or too bad at talking, but i always hope for anything i send him to hopefully start a conversation. it just hasn’t happened yet.

    and i’ve been thinking more about acting/voice acting. i’m not really sure how to break out of my bubble of just daydreaming. it’d be nice to have a fun career like that. i think it’d be something i really want to do, but i think i get caught up in all the fun it may be and forget to take issues that could come along with it into consideration too.

    #97093
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    The email you sent constitutes the assignment of the day, so well done!

    Tomorrow’s math test could constitute tomorrow’s assignment. You are intimidated about it and you are going to do it, going to go through with it and do your best. You will feel fear and do the test anyway. This is an excellent assignment for tomorrow!

    As far as the guy you like, well that would be an assignment for another day, sending him a different kind of message than the usual, maybe. I don’t know- it would be totally up to you, what, if anything you will send him.

    You initiate. You make your choices. I like it! And you are doing so well, I am truly excited!

    anita

    #97255
    Wisdom
    Participant

    not to be too in your business, anita. but do you have any kids? i remember saying you were married. what’s that like? what’s it like to have a family? that’s something i always think about. although i’m not sure if it will actually ever happen for me. i don’t know how clear into my own future i can see, but it’s really nice to think and dream about.

    #97288
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    What about the report of the day? The test you took today?

    As far as me: no I do not have kids and never will. I never intended to have children and although I am currently married, I married when I was 49!

    As to what it is like: it is about helping each other live through fears and sadness and hurts… helping each other, being partners, a team, Win-Win. His well being is my own and my well being is his.

    anita

    #97307
    Wisdom
    Participant

    anita –

    i think the test i took went pretty well. maybe i did okay, but i think once i find out i’ll be okay with any grade – just to see where i stand and what i need to improve. it wasn’t a breeze through, but i enjoy challenges so i want to stick through that math class till the end of the semester.

    #97322
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    Thank you for the report: I like it that you are okay with any grade, now that the test is over and that you are thinking about improving. And that you enjoy challenges! This last part is good, oh so good to read from you!

    As to your yesterday’s post about your future regarding marriage and family- this is an option for you, a real possibility. As you meet this and that challenge in life, no longer as paralyzed with fear (“afraid to live”- title of this thread), more and more things, over time, will become possible for you, things that will bring you love and joy.

    Remember my tree analogy of you, being only a trunk because there was only a little water and nutrients and sun available to it? Well, through this thread, over time, I see little branches growing from that trunk and even leaves and I see a beginning of a budding flower. Things are happening, a growth and it is exciting. It is happening and I see it!

    anita

    #97327
    Wisdom
    Participant

    yes i remember that analogy! and to add to the tree i made an acquaintance at school today! she said that she’s seen me around (but i haven’t seen her cause i usually stick in my own zone). she’s really nice and we’re actually in the same class so maybe we’ll end up being friends! i hope you’re growing too anita and getting over all your fears one by one at your own pace too! and thank you for being happy for me! it’s really nice to have you as an online friend to talk to and actually help me grow and develop. without you i would really only be stuck waiting and waiting for things to change, but slowly i think i see that things may actually be changing!

    i definitely can tell that marriage is a long step away so i’d say you’re way ahead of me fearwise. marriage is probably the level 100 of the game.

    i’m thinking of talking to him today too. what will i do? i have no idea, but i’m determined to get an actual invested conversation out of him. i know i can’t MAKE anybody do anything, but i feel like we have to talk for some reason. there’s just something about him that i feel like there’s something that’s supposed to happen between us. and maybe it could be me just wanting that, but it feels deeper than that. just by heart or gut feeling. just me seeing beyond what’s in front of me. just a feeling of something that’s bound. i don’t know if it’s bad or good, but i hope for the latter. i really really do.

    #97329
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    It is good to have you as my online young friend! I am inspired by you!

    You making an acquaintance at school today counts as your assignment for today. Good job!

    As far as the guy: I am glad you wrote that “”maybe it could be me just wanting that” with him. You feeling so strongly about it, as if he is your soul mate, that destiny wants you and him together…

    Well, I know you have some belief in soul mates/ destiny so I let it be, your belief. I will not argue against this belief. But I am glad you are open to the possibility that it may be your strong desire that is behind this… strong desire for him, for a love relationship with a young man.

    Sometimes we want something so badly, so intensely and for so long… we find refuge in believing it is meant to be.

    As i wrote you … already did the assignment of the day, so if you contact the guy… that will be like extra credit, ha ha.

    Let me know if you choose to write to him.

    anita

    #97373
    Wisdom
    Participant

    i haven’t necessarily started a conversation with him. im too apprehensive. i feel like maybe he could be busy or something, but i’m sure that we’ll talk one day. i just don’t want to end up waiting forever again which is the part that really confuses me and irks me. and i don’t really know if i should feel bad or confused or whatever but it’s bleeding into everything else. just my attitude toward everything is sucky because i’m in a bad mood constantly worrying “is he going to talk to me? (on his own)” “am i annoying him?” “does he even think about me?” “will he ever answer me?” and just waiting waiting waiting for anything from him at anytime. and i’m not mad at him, not at all. i’m mad at myself. because i feel ugly and subpar and i feel unsure and i don’t even know if i’m really worth his time. maybe he could be afraid to say anything to me. that’s in a good light, and if that’s what it really is, that’s fine. but what do i do with all this time other than worry and wait for him to show up. i’m really just upset and i want to keep my spirits up as best as i can, but i think that maybe i’m draining myself. i have nothing else to do but worry. i have no friends (in my real life) and i don’t have much i can do to just…release, relax and just have fun.

    #97374
    Wisdom
    Participant

    and i’m really glad i can inspire you anita! you inspire me too. i hope to be as gentle and kind, patient and caring as you are one day.

    #97403
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    You wrote above: “I hope to be as gentle and kind, patient and caring as you are one day.”

    The thing is, you already are those things! You wrote this to me because you value being gentle, kind, patient and caring. You value these things because you already are these things.

    In the post above you write that it is draining you to wait, it is not fun. Well, this is your experience. This is how you learn about things: from your own experience. Do you need to read in some book about waiting, if it is good or bad to wait…? No, nobody knows better than you how it is to wait for a guy online for so long. You know because you have been waiting and you feel how it.. feels to wait, and wait and wait.

    And then, it is you who decides if you can stop waiting, if you want to stop waiting and if … there is something you can do to stop waiting except for waiting until and IF he does something to end your waiting …?

    Ah, that was some sentence!

    Today’s assignment?

    anita

    #97405
    Wisdom
    Participant

    that was some kind of sentence haha! i think i’ll explain my all around feelings this way:

    since i’ve been taught to be patient, i definitely think it’s a very good thing to wait. my grandfather taught me that so i stand by it very much. with the guy that i like, i don’t mind waiting for him because…i want to and also because of what i believe is in the stars for me (or for us rather). BUT, just being uncertain of his feelings for me creates this whole mumbojumbo of me coming to the questions, “well, what am i really waiting for?” “for how long will i have to wait?” and i’ve been having a hankering to get a psychic reading on the situation just to be more sure (but i feel almost as if it’s a cheat. a cheat for life. not a sin, but part of me wants to be suprised for what’s to come of this instead of actually know…that may be weird since my main thing is “what’s going on? does he like me according to the stars and god?” i think my main thing with the whole is just to be sure i’m in the right. to know if i’m on the right track rather than to know (now) if he and i will ever be together and all.

    do i ever want to stop waiting for him? probably not. probably never. but am i sick of feeling this way? DEFINITELY. but i don’t think i’ll feel like this forever. i feel or believe that it will turn out in a good way. hopefully the way i’d like it to turn out – in an actual loving relationship.

    the more i actually listen to myself though, feeling this extreme for someone i’ve never met, i start to question how crazy i may sound.

    for today’s challenge, i haven’t done anything just yet but i got a day’s ahead of me

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by Wisdom.
    #97407
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    When your grandfather taught you to be patient, did he teach you to be patient in all things or in certain circumstances? Did he teach you to be patient in the context of anything particular…?

    Going for a walk, will talk to you following your answer when I am back…

    anita

    #97417
    Wisdom
    Participant

    he told me the story of jesus and that was his message to me. i’m pretty sure he was telling me that i should be patient in all things. before he passed we couldn’t get much information shared between each other. i never questioned the patience thing because i’ve always felt that anything he says goes and i guess being patient for one thing could be no different from being patient for another. he was talking about patience in general, but patience in love, i haven’t quite thought of it then at 16.

    #97426
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Wisdom:

    Patience in all things then. I agree, patience is a good, good thing.

    And so you patiently wait for a love relationship to happen between you and a young man online, a young man you never met and have no arrangement to meet. You feel it is in the stars that you have a loving relationship with this young man, that it is destiny. You do think at times that it sounds crazy to feel so strongly about a person you never met in person.

    But you FEEL. You feel so deeply for this man… whom you never met in person. You feel so strongly that you are willing to patiently wait for as long as it takes.

    You are fascinating, Wisdom! Patient, passionately patient Wisdom.

    It is Saturday evening your time, I wonder about the challenge of the day…?

    anita

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