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- From: M.J.Jennings@amtp.cam.ac.uk (Michael Jennings)
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- Subject: Re: "Just Happens"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.154933.18570@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:49:33 GMT
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- In article <Uf3hIni00iV304k1oS@andrew.cmu.edu>, ph2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul S. Hrynko) writes:
- |>
- |> 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?
-
- Only that your story is wonderful. When at school I was in a
- similar situation. I had a hated academic rival who I was never prepared to
- get to know for silly jealous reasons. I similarly gradually got to know her
- because the very fact that we were rivals in itself created some common
- interests. However, when we were at school together I could never see through
- the rivalry and wasn't able to see how special she was, and got hung up
- on someone else instead, with disastrous results (see my previous postings).
- When I finally figured out a few years later that I had a great deal of
- admiration and respect for Ruth (the rival) I made a great deal of effort to
- get back in touch with her and make up for my former blindness. There is
- nothing romantic in it (she is very serious with somebody else, and I was
- still hung up about the other girl) but we are now *great* friends, and I'm
- proud of that. However, I do sometimes wonder about what might have happened
- if we'd been friends instead of rivals when we were a bit younger.
-
- Michael.
-
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- Michael Jennings
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
- The University of Cambridge. mjj12@damtp.cambridge.ac.uk
-
- Disclaimer: the opinions presented here are mine alone,
- but they should be yours too because they're right.
-