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- From: ph2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul S. Hrynko)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: "Just Happens"
- Message-ID: <Uf3hIni00iV304k1oS@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 00:32:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.135954.2529@wetware.com>
- Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 58
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov21.135954.2529@wetware.com>
-
- I can't possibly go into detail as much as Diana did, but I can say a
- few things
-
- -You never find a relationship when you're looking for it. Extremely
- true, but I don't think it's because you're going for the superficial; I
- think it's because you think about it too much.
-
- -Relationships do just happen. In my life, I have never made a
- conscious effort to keep a relationship going. Actually, let me
- rephrase that. I live relationships for the moment. I have
- compromised, I have changed myself, but only because it would make
- myself and the relationship better. Relationships and other opinions
- tend to change your mind about issues. But I will not change
- fundamental values overnight. If they do change, it just happens.
-
- -If the lives of you and a SO happen to be parallel along this road of
- life, you can try to connect them. You are not "making" a relationship
- in the beginning. What you do later in the relationship is nourish the
- relationship, as the two of you begin to intertwine values, bringing the
- paths together.
-
- An Example: My SO and I have also been going out for 1.5 years. We
- used to be academic rivals, hating everything the other said and did.
- But there were times where we would happen to be in the same place at
- the same time. Eventually, our hating spawned an interest in what the
- other person was doing. We came to the conclusion that we had never
- seen each other socially. She invited me to a dance. We became distant
- again a few weeks later. Then Good Friends. A year and a half later, I
- dumped my current girlfriend, because I was in love with her. She came
- up to me out of the blue and told me she loved me. BAM! Our paths had
- crossed. I didn't do any work at all, neither did she. We had somehow
- formed a relationship. And today, a year later, over 338 miles apart,
- we are in love. When we separated at the end of this summer to go back
- to college, we wanted to see how we would act apart, to see how OUR
- relationship would be. Now, I don't even consider leaving our
- relationship, and she the same. We do communicate more than any other
- couple I know, and we are in love more than any other couple I know.
- But our communication is not "making" the relationship, it is nourishing
- the relationship, and just happened.
-
- Comments? Questions?
-
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- B efore your eyes observe the union of the sky with the water,
- E bbing and augmenting tides which know no bounds.
- A ll observe the eternal crashing of moody waves on the sand,
- C alling you to become part of a worldly being greater than yourself,
- H aving the ability to attain true love, peace, and contentment.
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