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The Nature of Loss
Why a Forest? Simple. Loss is more than just losing someone. It's losing oneself in a way. Imagine you find yourself in a Forest. With another person there beside you. It's nice, beautiful, maybe even poetic. However, if that person leaves you alone, you become scared, confused. Lost. Adrift in a now alien landscape. The trees you knew and loved have become foreign and unfamiliar. The world you knew loses potency and becomes frayed at its edges. Now all of this is just metaphorical for a very literal issue; however, the justification of image is important in order to understand the frame of mind from where this article stems.
By BlueManChu8 years ago in Humans
Love Strokes
I say that, in one’s life you are blessed if you are lucky enough to find your first love, the love of your life, then, perhaps, your soulmate, and then your life partner. One’s first love of their life is just that—the first time a feeling of love is felt towards someone else. To have compassion, attraction, and attachment to someone or something else. The love of your life comes after what feels like a mistake. You learn your lesson and you move on. The love of your life is someone who you absolutely fall in love with. You are in love with them and their life. You find someone that you are willing to do any and everything for. That someone is one who you build a love with that will last for a lifetime, someone who will always have a piece of your heart for as long as you live. If, for some reason, you lose the love of your life, I hope you are blessed enough to meet your soulmate. Your soulmate will be the one who feels as if you’ve known them all of your life. They will be aligned with your soul, causing a change to you as a whole, some way or another. Although the connection between you two is rated on a high level, separation will occur after you receive the love that they were meant to give. Don’t be sad, though, they will always be someone who is a phone call away. Your life partner—someone who the others prepared you for. Your life partner is a friend or companion who you can trust with your life. The two of you are so in sync with one another that you know what each other wants and needs without it being spoken. They are the person you will do any and everything for. You two were made to build a foundation so strong that God himself built it—Built with the lessons that were learned before you knew each other existed. Yes, they are the ones that you are made for, and vice versa.
By Tastee Thoughts8 years ago in Humans
Why I Have a Hard Time Socializing with Men...
How My Daddy Issues Cripple My Dating Life... Flirting has always been a struggle for me. There are times that I'm too aggressive and times when I'm too modest. I am woman with desire, but I have difficulty showing it. I've read books on how to flirt. I've bought programs to help me understand men. Going out always feels gross to me. Men in clubs/bars are usually very aggressive and I scare easily. What usually happens is I end up falling for one of my guy friends. Most of the time I end up in the friend zone because I can't show that I'm a sexual person. Flirting can come naturally when I feel comfortable, but even then I get anxiety about what to do next. I freeze up.
By Michelle Benoit8 years ago in Humans
Living Without You
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."-Cesare Pavese Looking back and remembering it as if it were yesterday—the day I first laid eyes on you. I'd been in love once, or so I thought I had, but this feeling was much stronger than what I had felt before.
By Joana Dourado8 years ago in Humans
Growing Apart
I don’t know what your summer's been like. What your class schedule is like for next year. What you do everyday, or who you hang out with. I no longer know the things about your life, and I haven’t for a while now. Besides the peek of your life I get from social media, I don’t know what’s going on. It’s a weird thing to me because I use to be such an important part of your life and knew almost every detail about you. We just to talk every day, I knew all of your secrets, your crushes, the family fights, or the fun things you did. I use to spend most of my time with you. But now I hardly see you, I barley know you, and I haven’t for a while now. You left me like I was an old chapter in your book you were finished reading. You left me without a second thought. Not for my lack of trying to reach out to you. Making plans to meet up with you and hang out, yet once again you bailed. I used to miss you, the car rides were we got lost because neither one of us can navigate. Or the movie night we had, our shared secrets, and daily snapchats. Me messing with your boyfriends and them taking part in my teasing banter. The nicknames we created. I use to miss your friendship so much. But I didn’t feel like you missed mine, or even remembered the things I did for you. So I decided to let you go and stop missing you. I use to be mad at you. Mad you could forget about me so quickly. That I could care about you so much but you cared about me so little. It baffled me how I could go from seeing you every single day to barley ever talking. It took some time but I eventually realized you weren’t a friend. A friend isn’t someone who only contacts you when they want something or have no one else. It’s not someone who keeps you around as an obligation or because your families are friends. And it not someone who doesn’t even know who you are or what’s going on in your life. Life can change in the blink of an eye and I would rather have people in my life that truly care and that even if we went a time without talking it would be evident that they were always there for whatever you need. Some people can grow separately without growing apart but it appears that’s not true for us. Now you’re just somebody that I use to know. Not for lack of trying or caring. But because slowly but surly without you ever noticing you started drifting from my life, and no longer knew me. You stopped asking how I was. You don’t know about the challenges I’ve faced and the strives I’ve made. I’ve changed but you weren’t there to notice. I finally realized there is no point in trying to stay friends with someone who doesn’t know who your are, or care to ask. I'm not mad or sad. I don’t hate you. I know people change and life moves on. I’ve moved on and I’m okay. I’ve let go of wishing and holding of what could be. I just hope one day someone asks you how I am or why we no longer hang out and you realize you don’t know me. You don’t know how I am or if I’m okay. I hope it hurts knowing you lost someone who cared about you as much as I did.
By Navatnie Etchin8 years ago in Humans
Gift Exchange with Your Love
Are the gift giving holidays causing inner turmoil about what is proper etiquette between your partner and yourself? What do you give your partner when he or she does not clearly tell you what he or she wants? Should you repeatedly ask until your partner answers? If your partner must know about the gift, do you give it early? Who really writes the rules on this stuff?
By Kari Cadrette8 years ago in Humans
To the Girl Who Thinks She'll Never Move On
I know you are thinking that you can't move on. You are thinking that you will always love this guy but I'm telling you that you will move on. I did. I moved on and fell in love with someone who treats me the way I deserve to be treated. I fell in love with someone who treats me the way every girl deserves to be treated. I fell in love with someone who grounds me and makes me feel worthy and loved. I fell in love with a man who makes me feel safe. But it wasn't an easy path that led me to this man.
By Hannah Beaton8 years ago in Humans
See You Next Lifetime
You ever spot a stranger from across the way and feel drawn to them, as if their eyes are reminiscent to your soul? Or when you meet someone for the first time and an instant connection sparks as if you've been friends forever? OH! Or how about when you meet someone so perfect for you, the feeling they bring is just indescribable? You aren't held back or afraid of being your divine self because everything is effortless with this person. They're pure, genuine, and real. You're telepathically connected to the point where you finish each other's sentences or they reach out to you in the exact moment you're thinking of them.
By Amanda Nieves8 years ago in Humans
