tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22566066.post250944377207754554..comments2024-02-19T16:20:08.130-06:00Comments on almost literary: Misunderstood (Choose Your Own Adventure)Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653535953278952618noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22566066.post-40789391539424549702007-06-22T21:46:00.000-05:002007-06-22T21:46:00.000-05:00Girls, boys...silly birds, one and all. I agree wi...Girls, boys...silly birds, one and all. I agree with your takes, excepting the following:<BR/><BR/>I so would've settled for the Ronco, hoping inwardly that he was once again too cheap to spring for a re-shoot and any updates in pricing would be freeze-framed with a "WAIT, RON!" voiceover.<BR/><BR/>Not too certain how I found your blog, but I'm glad I did.Sarah Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148966105204507059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22566066.post-78953596931725465652007-06-22T09:50:00.000-05:002007-06-22T09:50:00.000-05:00Just found this quote online and thought it was ap...Just found this quote online and thought it was apropos for whatevers in the water for quarterlife crises these days:<BR/><BR/>"The truth of the matter is that you desperately want to be accepted and valued by others. Losing the support of people you are closest to would leave you floating through life completely on your own, with nobody you could count on but yourself. This might satisfy your need for control, but it would foster feelings of alienation and isolation. Some of you most intense emotional reactions and deepest fears are therefore lodged in your strong desire to be accepted by others. You will sometimes compromise your most sacred beliefs, back down from a dispute, or initiate a conflict with someone, all in the name of maintaining your stature in other people's eyes as well as your own self-image."<BR/><BR/>Hmmmm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22566066.post-18962323410030727102007-06-22T08:49:00.000-05:002007-06-22T08:49:00.000-05:00Alot of people who don't understand what they are ...Alot of people who don't understand what they are doing are doing so because they have ascribed all these things to what a commitment is. I've seen girls and guys run when something gets tough because they think its supposed to be all hunky-dory all the time and freak out when it isn't. It's the couples that realize that you have to weather all sorts of storms and practice that early that know how to survive, not just because their lives are easy.<BR/><BR/>People who run from the ebb and flow of what it really means to be in love and love someone will most likely never be able to be happy in their lives. Because there will be a time when you have to deal with children, money, dying parents and mid-life crisis. Who are these fools having a crisis of heart after 3 years when they've got young, nubile partners and no mortgages? They're running scared, that's what, and they might just have a character flaw forever, or if they fix it, realize that the person of their dreams has already moved on. And don't even get me started on the people who run off for falling out "of love".<BR/><BR/>"Love" but not "in love?" Please, "in Love" is merely infatuation. Loving someone is not an accident, it's a CHOICE we make. Those who were once "in love" and split because they now only "love" the person - this infuriates me. Maybe those catholics were on to something when they deemed divorce as sin. I am far from catholic and have many issues with the dogmas. But, they were on to something. <BR/><BR/>People need to step up to what loving means. It's gotten pretty easy to just cut and run as you say, but that doesn't make it right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22566066.post-36487443748339260712007-06-22T05:14:00.000-05:002007-06-22T05:14:00.000-05:00Gahhd I love, love, LOVE your blog and the way you...Gahhd I love, love, LOVE your blog and the way you write. <BR/><BR/>This post just made me smile. As a bloke, traditionally I've always wondered whether both sexes panic at "the five year plan" or whether the balance is in favour of guys panicking more than girls. It's always been the case whenever a male friend of mine's broken up with a long term girlfriend, it was because "things were getting too serious" - What the HELL does that mean? How can you spend 2 years with someone and it not already be serious?<BR/><BR/>Similarly - I've got girl friends who have issues with commitment (or a lack of it) as being the be all and end all of any relationship they get into - even with someone they know is a dyed in the wool commitment-phobe. <BR/><BR/>The problem is, and particularly in the modern world, people are so ready to be pigeonholed or fit into an ideal that they forget how to be themselves. It's so bizarre. <BR/><BR/>My number one rule of relationships (says he, the abject failure at relationships) is "There are no rules". <BR/><BR/>Peej<BR/>xReadItDaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03701448003248147233noreply@blogger.com