I love the photo Ummka...We have always been faced with choices in life...did we take the wrong path? No. We make our choices and we should stand by them... Our path might have been to learn something along the way.
@Timotie... I certainly was not limiting this to dating sites, this is a general observation. Dating is precarious even offline because people tend to put their best foot forward and sometimes it takes a while before you see their quirks.
@Ummka... There is a great deal of truth in that. Often we ignore warning signs, but I think there is more to it than a sense. It's blatently obvious when we look back often.
Marina, it's disappointing at times that people don't see what is obvious to me. However, to have rose-coloured glasses again would be delightful. There was a time that I thought everyone was to be trusted, everyone could be a friend... I still like to extend trust, to do else wise would be not true to myself. However, now I know that not everyone can be a friend. Sometimes people will only ever be acquaintances passing through your life.
Thank you. I am not sure we have met before, but it's always nice to meet someone new.
I believe you can assess people online to a degree, sometimes it's not the interaction with you, but observing their interaction with others. My assessment of people before I meet them offline, remains the same afterwards... so it seems that I naturally observe interaction. It always surprises me when someone 'acts up' online and expects people not to see through it.
You can't really make of a fool out of yourself for saying what you think. You can change others perception of yourself. However, personally, you have always been exceptionally nice to deal with... so that's how I view you.
Hello Butterfly... I just put down random thoughts that I process at any given time in my life. This week was particularly poignant for me. I am glad you enjoyed the read.
I am fortunate enough to have met up with some of my online friends. They have opened my world , but it's not like I am short of friends offline either, but the conversations take me to places that only Dr Suess can dream of. I met a Physicist in New York last year, fascinating guy... insular though, incredibly intelligent which I always find appealing in friends.
My work/life balance slips occasionally, but like yourself... I love my job. I had lunch today with a group I met in New York (although the lunch was in Melbourne). So I do work on trying to keep that balance, sometimes I am even successful. I am relieved to hear I am not the only person who struggles with this balance.
Thank you, Obscuritan. A week or so after I wrote that though, I did meet THAT man, and he wasn't meant to be. We remain friends...both of us with regrets. BUT ... I can't let that change who I am, or what I wish for... I can smile I was fortunate enough to cross paths with him... and I move forward.
We should all have dreams... as long as we are grounded enough to realise that nothing is perfect, and no situation is ...but we can achieve happiness if we work on it.
@St.Elmo... Thank you. His time... well, he has been given weeks, but I believe it's going to be this week. He is truly wasting away, but his faculties are there and he laughed with me, even though it caused him some pain to do so.
The poem has circulated the internet for years, and it has seemed to offer people some sort of consulation when they are dealing with 'goodbyes'.
A favorite? ...but there are so many to choose from. Taking a moment to inhale the scent of a beautiful flower; being mesmerised by a view in front of you; a perfume capturing your senses... I am not sure I have a favorite. I like so much in life.
Sometimes we just don't appreciate the experience we have had with someone passing through our life, we have to re-evaluate...step back and accept what their role in our lives was. It's not always what we want it to be, but ... that is why life is such an interesting journey.
You are welcome. Thank you for stopping by to read it.
St Elmo, I lived for books when I was young. I escaped into them. I would easily have read every Enid Blyton book ten times each, but my favorites I would have read close to thirty times each. I never lost interest in them. And what wonderful worlds to lose myself in.
Now, I still have piles of books, but the titles changed... Now they are theological, philosophical, historical...but occasionally I throw something different into the equation and lose myself in another world.
@Scouse... My motto when I was younger was "Why try and make it out alive, no-one else does... Live dangerously". I did partake of some very reckless behavior.
But of course ,that was about the time that I also thought anyone over 30 was old... over 40 we were practically seniors... you are getting the point, yes?
I have always believed that one day I will have a rocking chair to do exactly that, but ... I never realised I could be doing that alone. For some reason, I always envisaged I would have company.
Oh this wasn't rubbing anything in. I was just trying to remember moments in my life that stood out.
New Zealand is beautiful , I agree. I was in Waitomo Caves a couple of years ago, we are put in a boat that is pulled into an underwater cavern that is lit up by thousands of sparkling lights ( gloworms) ... it was magical.
As for the penguins, that I understand too... There is a place that is a couple of hours drive from me. Phillip Island, well known for fairy penguins. I have been to see them three times. There is a huge museum, and then later everyone heads to the beach and watches them come in and make their way to the burrows. As you are walking back to the museum later... you walk within a metre or so of them. It's a wonderful place to go.
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