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- Subject: Re: "Made" or "Just Happens"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.221703.2393@gacvx2.gac.edu>
- From: dgartner@onza.gac.edu (David M Gartner)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:17:01 -0600
- References: <BxvBr5.GD0@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <BxvBr5.GD0@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:
- >
- > There has been an on-going argument as to whether or not
- relationships
- > have to be planned or just happen. Do you need a plan and a strategy to
- find
- > that special SO or do you play the waiting game and let nature take its
- course?
- > Does it just happen or do you have to make it happen? etc.
- > This reminds me of an episode I saw on Donahue or Oprah or one of
- those
- > stupid shows years ago. There were four doctors/shrinks/specialists on
- the show
- > that had all written books on relationships; how to get involved in one,
- what to
- > do when in one, etc.. Three out of the four people's books and beliefs
- painted
- > a picture of smilely faces and roses: if you are a good loving person,
- good
- > things will come to you, be yourself, happy, happy, gag, gag. The forth
- guy
- > was an author of one of those "how to pick up chicks" books. Basically,
- the
- > whole show was the three "happy" people, the host, and the majority of
- the
- > audience verbally abusing this one guy. However, there were people in
- the
- > audience, both men and women, who found what this guy had to say to be
- true and
- > were shocked by the way the majority saw this situation through
- rose-colored
- > glasses. These people said that it's not all that easy to find that
- special
- > someone, that it's a game that has to be played over and over again.
- > So what's my point? I want to know how other people feel about
- this.
- > Myself, I think that anyone who doesn't see that relationships are made
- and
- > don't just happen are either A) Living in a fantasy world, B) Been in a
- > relationship too long to remember what it is like, or C) One in a
- million that
- > were lucky enough to experience "love at first sight". So let's here
- it:
- > Does it just happen or do you have to make it happen?
- >
- > - Just wondering...
- > Mike Poe
-
- I used to think that you had to make things happen. But I think
- you just have to be aware of what is happening around you. That's when
- things happen to you.
- However, yes, I was lucky this last time, the one in million "love
- at first sight", happened to me. I haven't known her for that long but
- everything I know about her I love. And I know has I grow to know her, my
- love for her will also grow.
-
- --
- David M. Gartner
- dgartner@nic.gac.edu
- "I learned more trying to beat the system
- then I ever did from the system." R. Crozier
-