Work was fustrating today. I'm unsure of whether the people of Arundel are being purposely idiotic or not. I work in a medium sized newsagents and we sell a lot of ice cream, we have the soft whippy, carte dor scoops, and the lollys in the freezer. So someone, for whatever reason, decided they didn't want the Crunchie ice cream they had chosen, and so put it in with the crisps. THE CRISPS! It was warm when I found it, and therefore melted. Had to be written off. Is it not common sense to put an ice cream in a freezer? It's not the first time it has happened either. At least once a fortnight it will happen. The freezer is right next to our entrance, it can't be hard, there is not that much effort involved in putting an ice cream back in a freezer. SO WHY THE CRISPS?
Wow. I like this thread. Just by writing it down I feel a whole lot better!:D
I guess I don't tend to be around when a new episode comes out. I never played the episodes the day the came out with ToMI (plus I wasn't going on the forums much at the time) and my computer couldn't play the Devil's Playhouse so I guess I avoided the forums for that a bit?
Why would people be on edge though? Shouldn't they be happy? I get the telltale team being on edge or stressed or whatever but they're not the ones doing it. It's weird.
Maybe it's just because there is so much more activity or something.
I like to write in all caps sometimes. It's a nice stress reliever and I have some creative ways of writing some capital letters. Like using an epsilon for an E.
And now I'm frustrated because while I was already feeling like crap, someone went and posted this on my deviantArt profile:
Oh crap. DeviantArt is normally a rather safe place to post one's art endeavours, as only registered people may post, and those usually have a gallery of their own. Hit the "hide" button for that post and just forget about it! This has nothing to do with your art, this has to do with a total lack of manners of the poster.
If you want revenge or something like that, go to the DA forums and expose that poster. People there will roast him on a stick, I can tell you. It isn't really worth the effort, though.
Posting Art on DA is hard enough without negative comments - there are some really impressive artists there, and involuntarily as well as inevitably, one feels the need to compare one's own works with those of these other artists. That can get me down very quickly...
If you want an earnest critique that takes your previous art experience into account, kindly direct me to your account. I'll see what I can do with my - also limited! - experience
I am slightly frustrated by the fact that cursive lettering does not make sense.
People say that it's neater, I don't see how. I Can't read it or write it. it just looks like someone put random squiggles on paper
Cursive lettering is basically the same as script, but written so that you don't have to lift the pen from the paper. That was probably useful when you had to use a feather to write.
You'll notice the loops and curves start where you'd lift your pen and end where you'd put it down again.
I personally find it faster and more effective in the middle of words, however you can see I don't do that all the time, making my writing look inconsistent. But it's consistent in my mind as it's more efficient. I used to write for hours everyday (now I type a lot more and write a lot less) so it could make a big difference in the end.
I'm frustrated because I just heard an amazing symphony orchestra participate in collective murder, and the victim's name is poetry. Somehow, between Konzertstück and Beethoven's 5th, they sandwiched in a monstrosity that involved an erratic musical style accompanied by unintelligible operatic wailing.
Hey, you write in all caps!
Er, I mean "HEY, YOU WRITE IN ALL CAPS!"
I did learn cursive but it's takes me longer to write using that whereas I can write quickly if I just use capitals though I have recently been trying to write in small case when doing code to make me take my time about it. Takes some effort mind as writing in caps just comes naturally now.
I'm frustrated because I feel useless for a Homework, and because Screen Toaster doesn't let me go further the part I started to paint the lights in the recent screen cast for whathever reason.
But, for some reason, I'm not that cranky. I guess Jared's excelent music has to do something with that.
I'm frustrated because I feel useless for a Homework, and because Screen Toaster doesn't let me go further the part I started to paint the lights in the recent screen cast for whathever reason.
But, for some reason, I'm not that cranky. I guess Jared's excelent music has to do something with that.
LOL those are just external quests. You're such a terrific and wonderful person. We love hearing from you. I don't understand why something so mechanical could make you feel useless. Are you that passionate, concerned with your extra curricular activities? If so, that's a beautiful thing and something to be deeply valued within yourself.
It's good to want to give something your best, but it's not good to cut yourself short of your best by succumbing to self doubt and self neglect.
If you have a problem work for the solution or reach out to others for their help.
Relax, put faith into yourself, and focus.
I have years of social anxiety, that I am working through. My art work is polluted with anxiety, confidence issues. I go through critiques where I come out battered, I put hours into a drawing only to rip it to pieces.
BUT...when i believe in myself, and when I focus, I can do three worth while drawings in one sitting, 4 times faster than one that I usually can do.
The point is that we have abilities, we're all so special human beings, we're all so very gifted. We just some times choose to ignore our special talents and abilities, whether it fear, doubt, a sense of worthlessness...
I'm not a bad artist, I just have psychological issues that restrict my talents, that distract me and it's a emotional burden as a artist to go through that I admit, but I know what I believe in is what I am capable of.
I'm frustrated because I got slightly sunburned yesterday, but I know my dad is still going to try and get me outside to mow the lawn today. And I mowed it less than a week ago. In the rain. Because he told me to.
I'm frustrated because I have an exam soon, and I have a blocked nostril, a runny nostril and a painful cough.
Take the exam paper and feed it to the rabid dog down the street. This will turn it into a shredded spitball. Stick the spitball into the runny nostril. This will cause a huge backup that makes the blockage in the blocked nostril to shoot out. This solves your nose and exam problems. For the cough problem, remember the cold medicine that's been in your inventory from the very beginning? Now's the time to use it!
There was one time where I had just started to get sick when I had an exam, and I ran out of tissues halfway through the day, so I had to use napkins. My nose was so incredibly raw by the end of that day, I had to buy a box of lotion tissues on the way home.
There was one time where I had just started to get sick when I had an exam, and I ran out of tissues halfway through the day, so I had to use napkins. My nose was so incredibly raw by the end of that day, I had to buy a box of lotion tissues on the way home.
I used to have strong allergies and y nose was almost constantly raw. Didn't have any lotion tissues (maybe they're not common in France?) and although I put lotion on my nose regularly, it burned like hell.
Then I discovered udder balm. It's for cow utters because they get sore from being milked so much, so the farmers put balm on the udders to make the cow feel a bit better. It didn't burn! Even Shea butter would burn.
It was really nice.
Then I switched to handkerchiefs instead of tissues and my nose stopped being raw.
And then I stopped having milk and my allergies faded so I don't even need to blow my nose often anymore.
But I just thought, if anyone has that problem, udder balm is great!
Take the exam paper and feed it to the rabid dog down the street. This will turn it into a shredded spitball. Stick the spitball into the runny nostril. This will cause a huge backup that makes the blockage in the blocked nostril to shoot out. This solves your nose and exam problems. For the cough problem, remember the cold medicine that's been in your inventory from the very beginning? Now's the time to use it!
This is definitely what I'd do if my life was an adventure game.
I'm frustrated because I have an exam soon, and I have a blocked nostril, a runny nostril and a painful cough.
Aw, poor you. It sucks to be sick when you've got important and/or fun things to be getting on with.
I had horrible tonsilitis earlier this year. So gross. I lost my voice for days and had to communicate via pen and paper or charades. I was back in Oz for a visit as well, so it was doubly frustrating not being able to speak to anyone.
The morning I was supposed to fly back to London, I was STILL SICK and extremely not keen on spending 30 hours in transit. I ended up going to hospital, they injected me with a bunch of stuff just so I'd be able to get on a plane... intravenous antibiotics, steroids (!), and some kind of solution to rehydrate me since I hadn't been able to drink. I felt comparatively awesome after that.
It still took ages to go away, it lingered for almost a month. Makes you appreciate being healthy though.
I'm frustrated because my monitor is having some trouble with the red channel and I'm seeing all in pale orange, green and blue instead of red, green and blue and the tech guys at work gave me the following answer: "You can still work with it, it's not that bad"
A while back, my sister told me that her friend I have a crush on used to have a crush on me. To further twist the knife, she said that she would've been okay with it if we'd gone out. Tonight, her friend announced that she's engaged.
A while back, my sister told me that her friend I have a crush on used to have a crush on me. To further twist the knife, she said that she would've been okay with it if we'd gone out. Tonight, her friend announced that she's engaged.
So that's pretty frustrating.
*hugs*
That sucks. That kind of me scared me so much when I was younger than I, well, made a fool of myself more than once. In 6th grade, I wrote a love letter to a guy who, apparently, had a crush on me, too. Still, he seemed to think it was more fun to bring the letter to school and let all of his pals read it. That was embarrassing.
Then in 9th grade I liked a guy, and after he had broken up with his girlfriend I asked him out. He told me he already had a girlfriend, to which I replied "I thought you guys had broken up" (I wasn't trying to interrogate him, it was more a case of thinking out loud). He started avoiding my eyes and going "Errr...." which was awkward to.
In first year of university, I liked someone again. Waiting until the end of the year, asked him if he wanted to have a drink after his classes were over, he said sure, we went to have a drink, then he walked me to the subway station, I handed him my phone number and he said "thanks, I'll take it but you should know I won't call you."
Well, that was less awkward than the other two, and much nicer than him lying and then never calling me while I waited, but still, ouch.
I wasn't very lucky with guys for some reason.
Anyway, I don't know, I guess it's better to be sure than to let you chance go. On the other hand I've wondered before if things might have worked out better if I had acted more "traditionally", like, being all nice and possibly flirty but letting them ask me out. The first one did like me but I guess he was at a stupid age. The second one, well, I guess I was just the nerdy girl he was hoping to run away from
I think the third one, I could have least been friends with, and I kind of ruined it. The next year we were all awkward around one another and I ended up avoiding him. I keep thinking, maybe he was worried by the age difference or something (he was 12 years older) and if we had been friends for longer it would have worked better? Maybe I went too fast?
Oh well. It's useless thinking back on things like that but yeah, it's frustrating I guess. I'm sorry about your situation, it really sucks.
Anyway, I don't know, I guess it's better to be sure than to let you chance go.
I've always thought it was worse if you let a chance go. I had the biggest crush on a guy in 8th grade, and I never said anything to him about it, well the year after he ended up transferring into a private school, and the year after that my parents sent me to a different private school, so yeah, I never got to talk to him again. It was really depressing. Even if he had laughed in my face, I think it would have been better than always thinking "what if."
Although there was this guy I asked out once in college, who was about 10 years older than me, who couldn't deal with the age difference and thought of me as a little kid, so needless to say we broke up really quickly.
The way I see it, if you put your feelings out there, and the other person rejects them, then they are the ones that have to deal with regret later on. Also, I have noticed that the person who initiates a break up feels worse because it was their decision, so they take a huge responsibility for it. Two of my friends who were dating broke up (he with her) and she got over it within a month or two, and he was the one who ended up thinking he made a mistake. Just an interesting twist on the whole thing.
That reminds me of a pretty awful experience I had my senior year of high school. I had gym with this younger girl I liked. Well, I made the mistake of telling the guy I hung out with in that class, who was in the same grade as her. Once he found out, he blurted it to this other girl named Amber. Amber was a horrible person and a pathological liar. I ended up being forced to confess to Anna, and by the end of the year, I think she thought I was stalking her. I still haven't forgiven Amber for all that. So that's a case where I really would rather have let the chance go, because Anna not remembering me at all would've been better than her remembering me as "that one creepy guy".
The way I see it, if you put your feelings out there, and the other person rejects them, then they are the ones that have to deal with regret later on.
That seems... naïve.
All the girls who rejected me seem totally happy now one way or the other, and I am the one who's depressed/suicidal...
That seems... naïve.
All the girls who rejected me seem totally happy now one way or the other, and I am the one who's depressed/suicidal...
Well for myself, I would rather have taken the chance. And I think the regret thing works more for people who have been dating at some point and break up, more so than something initial. I should have clarified that.
But still, I have had some pretty awful and painful dating/asking out/etc situations in my life, and I just wouldn't do it differently. Sure it hurt like hell at the time, but if I hadn't said "I like you" I would have been angry with myself. Maybe that's just something I tell myself, I don't know. There are certain things I wish I had done a little differently, but I have never regretted telling a guy I liked him (no matter what the consequence was). Maybe I'm just crazy though.
I don't know, I think there is merit in waiting. Not as in, never doing anything, but more like taking your time. My mom confessed a few years ago to my dad that at some point she had left a note in his lab-coat (is it called a lab-coat for doctors? The met in the hospital) then she chickened out and went back to get it before he found it.
He laughed, but then he said it was a good thing she did that or they'd never have ended up together: he would have thought she was some kind of crazy girl, or a stalker or something. Even though he liked her.
I think you can't jump at someone's throat and tell them "I like you!" and I mean that figuratively, I think sometimes it's best to get closer first, otherwise it's kind of the equivalent of proposing on the first date, you know?
But I definitely think you need to be honest. Tell the truth if the person asks, for instance, and certainly not be cold or anything, be at least friendly, and when you're close enough, then ask. I think if I had done that it would have worked out better. I don't know if I would have said "yes" if someone I didn't even know/barely knew asked me out. I would have needed to know the person enough, so that it wouldn't be awkward, you know?
But then, when the question is "should I risk telling them?" then I think the answer is usually "yes". I think you can get over things like that (a girlfriend confessed to me and we're still friends to this date) and then you can get over it better, too. I think otherwise you stay so focused on what could have been that you don't move forward, if I'm making sense.
But I definitely think you need to be honest. Tell the truth if the person asks, for instance, and certainly not be cold or anything, be at least friendly, and when you're close enough, then ask. I think if I had done that it would have worked out better. I don't know if I would have said "yes" if someone I didn't even know/barely knew asked me out. I would have needed to know the person enough, so that it wouldn't be awkward, you know?
I completely agree. I was assuming this wouldn't be told to someone that was only a slight acquaintance or stranger.
The cases I was giving as examples were where the guy asked me how I felt about him, or I had known him for a while and we were obviously close enough to say that. I don't mean just go up to someone you stalk and blurt out "I like you!" There has to be some form of warmth from the other person. But just because the person is fond of you, doesn't mean they want to go out with you (that sort of thing).
Edit: Also, when I say put your feelings out there, that can be flirting too. There are a lot of conversations that can be had without ever bringing up the subject and it still leads to someone possibly being rejected. I guess I should have thrown a whole subtle aspect in there as well.
But then, when the question is "should I risk telling them?" then I think the answer is usually "yes". I think you can get over things like that (a girlfriend confessed to me and we're still friends to this date) and then you can get over it better, too. I think otherwise you stay so focused on what could have been that you don't move forward, if I'm making sense.
That's a perfect example. That is what I was trying to explain.
I'm fustrated because I cannot play the piano however hard I try. I'm attempting to learn the end credits song from Portal (Still Alive), but the best I can do at the moment is only using my right hand and I can only do that painfully slowly.
Here's a bit o' frustration. I have a friend who's constantly trying to convert me to Christianity. Today's sermon was particularly fun, as he apparently thought that belittling my beliefs would make me reconsider them.
I don't have the heart to remind him that he's switched religions three times since I've known him, and his convictions were just as strong then as they are now. Not that he'd listen anyway, as I've told him countless times before that I have no interest in converting, and he hasn't listened yet. *grumblegrumble*
Here's a bit o' frustration. I have a friend who's constantly trying to convert me to Christianity. Today's sermon was particularly fun, as he apparently thought that belittling my beliefs would make me reconsider them.
I don't have the heart to remind him that he's switched religions three times since I've known him, and his convictions were just as strong then as they are now. Not that he'd listen anyway, as I've told him countless times before that I have no interest in converting, and he hasn't listened yet. *grumblegrumble*
I'm Christian and I don't understand why we're always like "Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs... But only if they follow Christianity. Otherwise, they're WRONG" it feels to me like the Christian church is so stuck up about its "superiority" when it could just as easily be completely wrong.
I'm Christian and I don't understand why we're always like "Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs... But only if they follow Christianity. Otherwise, they're WRONG" it feels to me like the Christian church is so stuck up about its "superiority" when it could just as easily be completely wrong.
Agreed. I should add that I have nothing against Christians, lest this turns nasty. All paths are equally valid in my eyes.
I know a few people of the Christian faith that are very obsessive about trying to prove that what they believe is the only possible right way to think. And make anyone who doesn't believe that way feel wrong and belittled. But then again, I know many atheists who are just as adamant about squashing someone's belief system.
I think almost all different forms of religion are going toward similar goals, it's just about how you get there.
There is one guy I know who is very christian to the point where he knows most of the things in the bible. So much that he is never the "Convert" guy.
I can talk to him about the Bible. I am not christian, I don't know what I am. I can talk to him about it because we just talk about the stories in the bible. It's never "you should be christian." I love the stories, which is why I still like vegetales. (nothing bugging me, just wanting to put postive light on stuff)
I think it's good how people don't need religion to be happy. it shows we can be independent. i follow a religion, and i believe in it, but I dont actually care about all the facts behind it, i sort of just go "yep, ok so, there's god, and he watches me so i need to be good and... yeah"
that said, i still reckon other religions have excellent points, too. like islam. they have very good morals, well, most of them
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Wow. I like this thread. Just by writing it down I feel a whole lot better!:D
I guess I don't tend to be around when a new episode comes out. I never played the episodes the day the came out with ToMI (plus I wasn't going on the forums much at the time) and my computer couldn't play the Devil's Playhouse so I guess I avoided the forums for that a bit?
Why would people be on edge though? Shouldn't they be happy? I get the telltale team being on edge or stressed or whatever but they're not the ones doing it. It's weird.
Maybe it's just because there is so much more activity or something.
Hey, you write in all caps!
Er, I mean "HEY, YOU WRITE IN ALL CAPS!"
Oh crap. DeviantArt is normally a rather safe place to post one's art endeavours, as only registered people may post, and those usually have a gallery of their own. Hit the "hide" button for that post and just forget about it! This has nothing to do with your art, this has to do with a total lack of manners of the poster.
If you want revenge or something like that, go to the DA forums and expose that poster. People there will roast him on a stick, I can tell you. It isn't really worth the effort, though.
Posting Art on DA is hard enough without negative comments - there are some really impressive artists there, and involuntarily as well as inevitably, one feels the need to compare one's own works with those of these other artists. That can get me down very quickly...
If you want an earnest critique that takes your previous art experience into account, kindly direct me to your account. I'll see what I can do with my - also limited! - experience
People say that it's neater, I don't see how. I Can't read it or write it. it just looks like someone put random squiggles on paper
Cursive lettering is basically the same as script, but written so that you don't have to lift the pen from the paper. That was probably useful when you had to use a feather to write.
You'll notice the loops and curves start where you'd lift your pen and end where you'd put it down again.
I personally find it faster and more effective in the middle of words, however you can see I don't do that all the time, making my writing look inconsistent. But it's consistent in my mind as it's more efficient. I used to write for hours everyday (now I type a lot more and write a lot less) so it could make a big difference in the end.
I did learn cursive but it's takes me longer to write using that whereas I can write quickly if I just use capitals though I have recently been trying to write in small case when doing code to make me take my time about it. Takes some effort mind as writing in caps just comes naturally now.
But, for some reason, I'm not that cranky. I guess Jared's excelent music has to do something with that.
LOL those are just external quests. You're such a terrific and wonderful person. We love hearing from you. I don't understand why something so mechanical could make you feel useless. Are you that passionate, concerned with your extra curricular activities? If so, that's a beautiful thing and something to be deeply valued within yourself.
It's good to want to give something your best, but it's not good to cut yourself short of your best by succumbing to self doubt and self neglect.
If you have a problem work for the solution or reach out to others for their help.
Relax, put faith into yourself, and focus.
I have years of social anxiety, that I am working through. My art work is polluted with anxiety, confidence issues. I go through critiques where I come out battered, I put hours into a drawing only to rip it to pieces.
BUT...when i believe in myself, and when I focus, I can do three worth while drawings in one sitting, 4 times faster than one that I usually can do.
The point is that we have abilities, we're all so special human beings, we're all so very gifted. We just some times choose to ignore our special talents and abilities, whether it fear, doubt, a sense of worthlessness...
I'm not a bad artist, I just have psychological issues that restrict my talents, that distract me and it's a emotional burden as a artist to go through that I admit, but I know what I believe in is what I am capable of.
Take the exam paper and feed it to the rabid dog down the street. This will turn it into a shredded spitball. Stick the spitball into the runny nostril. This will cause a huge backup that makes the blockage in the blocked nostril to shoot out. This solves your nose and exam problems. For the cough problem, remember the cold medicine that's been in your inventory from the very beginning? Now's the time to use it!
I used to have strong allergies and y nose was almost constantly raw. Didn't have any lotion tissues (maybe they're not common in France?) and although I put lotion on my nose regularly, it burned like hell.
Then I discovered udder balm. It's for cow utters because they get sore from being milked so much, so the farmers put balm on the udders to make the cow feel a bit better. It didn't burn! Even Shea butter would burn.
It was really nice.
Then I switched to handkerchiefs instead of tissues and my nose stopped being raw.
And then I stopped having milk and my allergies faded so I don't even need to blow my nose often anymore.
But I just thought, if anyone has that problem, udder balm is great!
This is definitely what I'd do if my life was an adventure game.
It's "udder".
Aw, poor you. It sucks to be sick when you've got important and/or fun things to be getting on with.
I had horrible tonsilitis earlier this year. So gross. I lost my voice for days and had to communicate via pen and paper or charades. I was back in Oz for a visit as well, so it was doubly frustrating not being able to speak to anyone.
The morning I was supposed to fly back to London, I was STILL SICK and extremely not keen on spending 30 hours in transit. I ended up going to hospital, they injected me with a bunch of stuff just so I'd be able to get on a plane... intravenous antibiotics, steroids (!), and some kind of solution to rehydrate me since I hadn't been able to drink. I felt comparatively awesome after that.
It still took ages to go away, it lingered for almost a month. Makes you appreciate being healthy though.
Thanks! I don't know how I made that mistakes, but thanks for picking it up. Maybe because it's utterly working?
That it does
So that's pretty frustrating.
*hugs*
That sucks. That kind of me scared me so much when I was younger than I, well, made a fool of myself more than once. In 6th grade, I wrote a love letter to a guy who, apparently, had a crush on me, too. Still, he seemed to think it was more fun to bring the letter to school and let all of his pals read it. That was embarrassing.
Then in 9th grade I liked a guy, and after he had broken up with his girlfriend I asked him out. He told me he already had a girlfriend, to which I replied "I thought you guys had broken up" (I wasn't trying to interrogate him, it was more a case of thinking out loud). He started avoiding my eyes and going "Errr...." which was awkward to.
In first year of university, I liked someone again. Waiting until the end of the year, asked him if he wanted to have a drink after his classes were over, he said sure, we went to have a drink, then he walked me to the subway station, I handed him my phone number and he said "thanks, I'll take it but you should know I won't call you."
Well, that was less awkward than the other two, and much nicer than him lying and then never calling me while I waited, but still, ouch.
I wasn't very lucky with guys for some reason.
Anyway, I don't know, I guess it's better to be sure than to let you chance go. On the other hand I've wondered before if things might have worked out better if I had acted more "traditionally", like, being all nice and possibly flirty but letting them ask me out. The first one did like me but I guess he was at a stupid age. The second one, well, I guess I was just the nerdy girl he was hoping to run away from
I think the third one, I could have least been friends with, and I kind of ruined it. The next year we were all awkward around one another and I ended up avoiding him. I keep thinking, maybe he was worried by the age difference or something (he was 12 years older) and if we had been friends for longer it would have worked better? Maybe I went too fast?
Oh well. It's useless thinking back on things like that but yeah, it's frustrating I guess. I'm sorry about your situation, it really sucks.
*hugs again*
I've always thought it was worse if you let a chance go. I had the biggest crush on a guy in 8th grade, and I never said anything to him about it, well the year after he ended up transferring into a private school, and the year after that my parents sent me to a different private school, so yeah, I never got to talk to him again. It was really depressing. Even if he had laughed in my face, I think it would have been better than always thinking "what if."
Although there was this guy I asked out once in college, who was about 10 years older than me, who couldn't deal with the age difference and thought of me as a little kid, so needless to say we broke up really quickly.
The way I see it, if you put your feelings out there, and the other person rejects them, then they are the ones that have to deal with regret later on. Also, I have noticed that the person who initiates a break up feels worse because it was their decision, so they take a huge responsibility for it. Two of my friends who were dating broke up (he with her) and she got over it within a month or two, and he was the one who ended up thinking he made a mistake. Just an interesting twist on the whole thing.
All the girls who rejected me seem totally happy now one way or the other, and I am the one who's depressed/suicidal...
Well for myself, I would rather have taken the chance. And I think the regret thing works more for people who have been dating at some point and break up, more so than something initial. I should have clarified that.
But still, I have had some pretty awful and painful dating/asking out/etc situations in my life, and I just wouldn't do it differently. Sure it hurt like hell at the time, but if I hadn't said "I like you" I would have been angry with myself. Maybe that's just something I tell myself, I don't know. There are certain things I wish I had done a little differently, but I have never regretted telling a guy I liked him (no matter what the consequence was). Maybe I'm just crazy though.
He laughed, but then he said it was a good thing she did that or they'd never have ended up together: he would have thought she was some kind of crazy girl, or a stalker or something. Even though he liked her.
I think you can't jump at someone's throat and tell them "I like you!" and I mean that figuratively, I think sometimes it's best to get closer first, otherwise it's kind of the equivalent of proposing on the first date, you know?
But I definitely think you need to be honest. Tell the truth if the person asks, for instance, and certainly not be cold or anything, be at least friendly, and when you're close enough, then ask. I think if I had done that it would have worked out better. I don't know if I would have said "yes" if someone I didn't even know/barely knew asked me out. I would have needed to know the person enough, so that it wouldn't be awkward, you know?
But then, when the question is "should I risk telling them?" then I think the answer is usually "yes". I think you can get over things like that (a girlfriend confessed to me and we're still friends to this date) and then you can get over it better, too. I think otherwise you stay so focused on what could have been that you don't move forward, if I'm making sense.
I completely agree. I was assuming this wouldn't be told to someone that was only a slight acquaintance or stranger.
The cases I was giving as examples were where the guy asked me how I felt about him, or I had known him for a while and we were obviously close enough to say that. I don't mean just go up to someone you stalk and blurt out "I like you!"
Edit: Also, when I say put your feelings out there, that can be flirting too. There are a lot of conversations that can be had without ever bringing up the subject and it still leads to someone possibly being rejected. I guess I should have thrown a whole subtle aspect in there as well.
That's a perfect example. That is what I was trying to explain.
I guess I have to practice more.
I don't have the heart to remind him that he's switched religions three times since I've known him, and his convictions were just as strong then as they are now. Not that he'd listen anyway, as I've told him countless times before that I have no interest in converting, and he hasn't listened yet. *grumblegrumble*
I'm Christian and I don't understand why we're always like "Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs... But only if they follow Christianity. Otherwise, they're WRONG" it feels to me like the Christian church is so stuck up about its "superiority" when it could just as easily be completely wrong.
What religion are you, by the way?
Agreed. I should add that I have nothing against Christians, lest this turns nasty. All paths are equally valid in my eyes.
Neo-Pagan.
I think almost all different forms of religion are going toward similar goals, it's just about how you get there.
I can talk to him about the Bible. I am not christian, I don't know what I am. I can talk to him about it because we just talk about the stories in the bible. It's never "you should be christian." I love the stories, which is why I still like vegetales. (nothing bugging me, just wanting to put postive light on stuff)
that said, i still reckon other religions have excellent points, too. like islam. they have very good morals, well, most of them