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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!mrf12
- From: mrf12@cus.cam.ac.uk (Marcus Frean)
- Subject: Re: Is this love, or just a dead heart??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.124900.6489@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:49:00 GMT
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- >>>
- >>>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.
- >>>
- >>
- >>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 agree! Love should renew your faith a bit, accelerate your brain, put you
- >back in touch with your universe.
- >
- >-Jeanne
-
- I dont. I read it the other way around (I dont know whether or not
- this is how Steve saw it but anyway...) - I mean the fact that my
- expectations would go through the roof when I met a someone was a real
- hassle - it only meant endless trouble later on as the real person
- slowly disentangled themselves (in my head) from the ridiculous bunch
- of expectations I'd got in the first few times I met them. It just
- seems to be a really unfortunate side-effect (makes it sound like a
- medical condition...) of falling for someone that you "make them up"
- at the same time. You generally make them up faster than you actually
- get to know them, and then begins the process of undoing all that shit
- to get at the real person, if you can be bothered. When I was younger
- the whole thing was just a huge kick, and the fantasy expectations
- part of that kick. Nowadays if I had a choice, and I'm not saying I
- necessarily do, I'd rather skip all that. And you *do* have to undo it
- all sooner or later. It takes so long, it usually hurts, and heck,
- yes; I'm too tired of it all.
-
- Or maybe I'm overstating it - I dont mean it's not exciting, not at
- all. It's just the unreality of it gets me down, because I know it
- only spells trouble later on.
-
- marcus.
-