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« Reply #3870 on: 14:32:50, 17-08-2008 » |
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I am swept of my feet easily. I am very enthusiastic, impulsiv, etc.
After a while one learns to be a little cooler, turn his/her brains on after a few impulsive moves. It is not good to be too cautious too.
How hard it is to keep on a middle line.
My grandmother married so called "old batchelor". People thought he will never marry. But when he sew her (she was beautiful) he just could not help it.
They had a son (my uncle). My mother is older child from different relationship.
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« Reply #3871 on: 14:45:08, 17-08-2008 » |
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Being swept off your feet is all very well but it helps if there's someone there to catch you.
If you're both being swept off your respective feet simultaneously, it can lead to some very messy situations and lots of ouch.
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And sometimes you just get swept off your feet.
Exactly, hh. Which sometimes means we fall flat on our face. It hurts but we carry on (to get swept off our feet all over again!). I have very fond memories of my first love but we would be incompatible now - I'm a different person. We, hopefully, learn from our mistakes. My mother didn't approve of any of my boyfriends. I didn't take the blindest bit of notice!  |
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« Reply #3873 on: 14:58:57, 17-08-2008 » |
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Yes, one can make the same mistake over and over again. I am good at it too. Don't seems to learn much.
However, one can understand and after a period of infatuation reason with oneself.
Is there compatability, like:
1. Do we like similar things
2. Is he/she caring?
3. does he/she has a boy/girl friend or married
4. Is he/she nice
5. Does he/she care for me?
6. what type of a person he/she is?
7. How does he/she treat other people?
8. Is he/she manupulative person
9. Is he/she simpleton?
Much of it is done on intuitive level without analitical skills (in my case).
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« Reply #3874 on: 15:18:59, 17-08-2008 » |
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he was just about to divest himself of his trousers and deflower me when I puked all over him. Cymru am byth! |
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« Reply #3875 on: 15:41:53, 17-08-2008 » |
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he was just about to divest himself of his trousers and deflower me when I puked all over him. Cymru am byth! Indeed richard, the Welsh have lifted projectile vomiting into an art form, worthy of an Olympic category. The second attempt at my deflowering was equally funny. Perhaps we should have a sexual disasters thread? After my puking up over 28 year old sculptor I landed up in bed with the local butcher (Possibly Butcher Beynon who cartwheeled down the street with a finger, not his own, in his mouth) So, he did say to me, virginal 15 years and 6 months old "Do you want a rubber?" I did reply dressed in me straw boater and school uniform "I only have an Venus HB pencil and as far as I know I have not made any mistakes" You couldn't make it up! |
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« Reply #3876 on: 15:46:28, 17-08-2008 » |
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The second attempt at my deflowering was equally funny. Perhaps we should have a sexual disasters thread? I think then I would have to break the Board Rules and reappear under a pseudonym. Your mention of the butcher incident brought back to my mind one of the many amusing anagrams of "Cecil Parkinson" which were once common in Private Eye: "Cor! a skin pencil!" |
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« Reply #3877 on: 16:00:20, 17-08-2008 » |
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The second attempt at my deflowering was equally funny. I think then I would have to break the Board Rules and reappear under a pseudonym So it was you then? Under a funny name, like? Oh Bach, Fach, it was a Barrett on the tombstone, what is to be done, I do have lain there in the sloe black mist. Am I carrying a love child? Are the Welsh totally barking but brill composers? |
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« Reply #3878 on: 18:50:50, 17-08-2008 » |
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I was very timid and shy. I don't think men (or boys) noticed me at all.
In case some looked at me I could not see because I did not want to wear glasses.
That doesn't matter anymore.
If I had my life to live again may be I would make the same mistakes. (For sure I would).
In any case there are limitations with regard to our choices.
Could it be that many things are preordained?
Or majority of people think that it is our free will that makes it all happen?
I think may be a lot of choices I made were pre-ordained because of the person I was at that particular time.
Am I sorry for my choices?
May be I am, but it could be much worse.
If we meet this or that person it kind of was meant to be. We pass people by because we don't understand them, not mature or in the wrong mood.
There are seems to be random things, but if one knows the person and his/her personal history and stage of development then one can understand this person's choices.
Some times it is hard to understand yourown past choices.
Is that so?
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« Reply #3880 on: 19:08:17, 17-08-2008 » |
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I was very timid and shy. I don't think men (or boys) noticed me at all.
In case some looked at me I could not see because I did not want to wear glasses.
I did not wear glasses either. Vanity, vanity, saeith the Preacher, but lots of men noticed me through a glass darkly.
I did not wear glasses either. Vanity, vanity, saeith the Preacher, but lots of men noticed me through a glass darkly. |
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« Reply #3881 on: 19:11:42, 17-08-2008 » |
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To be honest I don't really understand many of my current decisions (some recent decisions have been spectacularly disastrous) and when I do, I'm not always terribly happy about it. Why do we, as a species, seem to enjoy putting ourselves in the way of emotional disturbance?
Why didn't I go out and buy a bottle of wine earlier rather than thinking about it now? Why did I listen to Das Rheingold twice yesterday and once the day before?
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« Reply #3882 on: 19:19:46, 17-08-2008 » |
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I noticed that when one starts making mistakes it is hard to stop.
One thing sort of leads to another.
It is easier to make mistakes when one is upset and not thinking clearly. At least it is like that with me.
If I am calm and reasonably "happy" things go well.
If I am upset, hurt or angry things get worse. And will go bad until I find the way out.
Or course I was (am) vain. Who is not? Only in my case my mother did not let me wear glasses because she thought my sight will get better withough glasses. She did not understand that I had really bad eye sight. Her (mother's) sight improved with time, but my could not get better.
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« Reply #3883 on: 19:32:01, 17-08-2008 » |
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I find the concept of dharma-the way-or tao, the existential how, quite useful. it is of course usually the hard way.
re: glasses, are they perhaps the equivalent of masks in the 18th century, with a whole language of inflection the sweeter for it being semi-conscious. the burkha i read has a similar attention-drawing to the eyes as celebrated by the likes of rumi.
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« Reply #3884 on: 19:48:59, 17-08-2008 » |
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I wore glasses for about 16 years before discovering contact lenses.
And then my eyes were revealed and then I was in trouble.
Back in my early bespectacled years they were NHS specs - no wonder no-one wanted to wear them.
When my family was able to afford a better class of eyewear, my choice in glasses was about as wonderful as my overall fashion sense and clarity of skin, so that didn't really help.
I didn't start to be vain until a few years ago and now I'm contemplating things like moisteuriser. Is there any hope?
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