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- From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
- Subject: Re: "Made" or "Just Happens"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.135954.2529@wetware.com>
- Sender: news@wetware.com (Usenet News Account)
- Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:59:54 GMT
- Lines: 56
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- I think that the OPPORTUNITY for a relationship
- is something that you can say "Just Happens", but
- the relationship itself is "Made".
-
- As has been pointed out before, you have to put
- yourself into a POSITION for a relationship to
- happen - unlike burglaries or house-fires they
- aren't likely to suddenly appear in your living
- room - but if you spend your energy looking for
- "a relationship", you tend to focus on the
- superficials, and can miss the possibilities that
- aren't in your focal range.
-
- Cases in point:
-
- Ever since I got net access - 2 years ago - I have
- tried to meet local net people, and get to know
- non-locals by e-mail. I have acquired many friends
- and acquaintances this way. I was not involved in
- a relationship at the time, but did not have finding
- one as my goal. Meeting people was my goal.
-
- Case one:
- One guy I started an e-mail conversation with
- became very insistant that I meet him for breakfast
- so we could meet. I went gladly - another person
- to know! About 45 minutes later he declaimed that
- it was obvious that there was no future for us so
- he didn't think it was worth even exchanging e-mail
- again. Left me rather astounded, and a bit miffed
- that I'd "wasted" a Saturday morning!
-
- Case two:
- A couple of months later, another person I'd been
- exchanging e-mail with for a while. This one was
- a net.personality, but the reputation seemed not to
- match the e-mail personality. In addition to just
- wanting to meet locals, I was also curious about
- the guy. This time, a Sunday breakfast - and the
- only motive was to just meet in person. We wound
- up spending 9 hours together that day just walking
- around talking. And each decided that the other
- was interesting enough to see again. Within 2
- weeks, we were seeing each other every other day,
- and have been "together" as a couple for about
- a year and a half.
-
- So the opportunity for the relationship "just
- happened" in the course of both of us just
- wanting to meet in person - but the subsequent
- 1.5 years has been "made" - by taking time to
- be together, by being there when the other was
- feeling bad, by talking and LISTENING to each
- other, and so on...
-
- Diana
-