Common
I often sit thinking whether or not it is common for other people to feel the way I do. Most of the time I feel alone and lost. I don’t feel like I am part of anything or that I fit in anywhere. I am by myself so I don’t have any one around that I can talk to when I need to talk. Then again there is my issue with not being very trusting of letting out how I feel about things because of the way I have been burned in the past.
That makes me wonder a lot about how other people feel about things and why they do the things they do. Is it common for people to act a certain way because they have some hidden want to need that they feel needs to be fulfilled and it doesn’t matter what they need to do or say for them to get it?
Danger
With all I’ve posted thus far about meeting someone online and then meeting them in person, we do still need to consider the danger that exists in our world today. Just this weekend, I read about a woman meeting a man online and taking it further by meeting in person. In this instance, as the article read, there was alcohol and drugs involved, and an argument soon enraged the couple. This story had a tragic ending as the man violently took the woman’s life!
In another article I read, a 76-year-old man posted an ad for a puppy he was selling. Someone reached out to him, and an agreement was made between the two parties to meet at a restaurant. There, they would exchange the money for the puppy. Sadly, the individual shot the man, leaving him for dead, and fled with the puppy!
When we decided to take our friendship outside of the “box” (our computers) and meet “in the real world,” we did so after MANY years of friendship. We knew each other because we shared intimate details of our lives. We shared our deepest, darkest secrets and fears. Every trial we faced was shared, and our friends rallied around us to offer support and encouragement. Happiness and good times were shared also through the years. But my point is the YEARS of our friendship ensured our safety when we finally met in person.
Be wary of those you meet online, yes! You can never be too careful here. But also know that not everyone on the internet is out to get you or cause you harm. There are good, honest people out there, just like my friends and I.
Adore
It was inevitable that that it would happen. The first look I knew. I don’t know how I knew, I just knew. There was something so special in those eyes. You could just feel it. To be honest, I adored her.
It wasn’t her beauty that captured me. It was her style, her grace. I didn’t know what hit me, but it hit me hard. It wasn’t just the purr of her soft voice or that way she sauntered in and out of the rooms. It was the entire package all rolled up into this wonderful, adorable persona that I couldn’t get enough of.
I would wait with anticipation for her to show up to where I was. It was like a craving for chocolate. I couldn’t get enough of her presence. Yes. I adored her.
I was Cyrano and she was my Roxanne.
She was my…
neighbors cat.
