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- From: smolin@physics.ucla.edu (Smolin)
- Subject: Re: Is this love, or just a dead heart??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.191749.9748@physics.ucla.edu>
- Organization: UCLA Department of Physics
- References: <1992Nov16.062132.5844@linus.mitre.org> <1992Nov18.054919.3206@utkux1.utk.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 19:17:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.054919.3206@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@martha.utcc.utk.edu (StMeechTheThwacked) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov16.062132.5844@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
- >>
- >>But not this time. She's great, I like her a lot,even starting to care about
- >>her, but there's no sound of engines warming up in the back of my head,
- >>no rush of adrenaline, no obsessive thoughts, no crying, no endless checking
- >>for email or anything like that...just lots of thoughts, ideas, images,etc.
- >>but none of the tyranny of emotion that has always been stock standard for
- >>me at times like this.
- >>Am I actually in control of my feelings this time, or have they been so
- >>stomped on and beat out of me that I don't even have them anymore.....?
- >>
- >
- >Maybe the engines really only "warm up" that first time you fall in love?
- >When you don't know what to expect? Now you know or believe or expect
- >things may not last, so you prepare yourself for the worst by convincing
- >yourself that the whole thing isn't that important. Or you think you
- >know what to expect. Maybe I am just a little too cynical.
- >
- >Back when I was younger, if I met a woman, my enthusiasm and expectations
- >would accelerate to warp drive. Now I just say: "I'll wait and see."
- >I'm too tired of it all.
- >
- >
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- This is the most angstful thing I've read in this newsgroup so far. When even
- love fails to be exciting that is when things start looking really bad. I
- know, I feel this way a lot. I much prefer being excited and miserable over
- someone (even if things don't work out) to the dead feeling of not caring
- about anything at all.
-
- John
- like lemmings leaving a sinking ship
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