Man, I have been there. I'd like to give you some advice. Please don't take any offense as I know that we are just Internet friends and I don't really know the situation well.
First, you probably aren't quite ready for a relationship now. It sounds like you aren't really into this girl anyway, and I wouldn't try to force anything anyway; it would have a good probability of just being a rebound relationship (although, rebound relationships are the fast track to getting over another relationship, it's kind of a mean thing to put the girl you're rebounding with through ya know?). Second, in my experience the best way to mend a broken heart starts with first removing the person who broke it. "Let's be friends" doesn't work for me right out the gate. It just makes me sad or I'll spend hours staring at their MySpace refreshing it and checking her updates and who comments. I delete their number from my phone, block their Facebook, their Myspace, their Livejournal, etc. Take anything that reminds you of her and put it in a box, and put that box away (unless it's something you need like medicine or something) Depending on the situation I'll explain beforehand of course, "Don't take offense, I would like to be friends at some point, but right now I just need to get over you. Sorry," and then cutting off communications. It doesn't have to be permanent, because you will feel better eventually, but checking in or having that communication on her won't help in the short term. This will be very hard, most definitely, but you'll come out of it much healthier. You can channel this energy positively though. Add a new hobby that involves a completely new addition to your routine. I started doing long bike rides the last one I had (course I didn't bring my bike with me to college, which sucks), but I found that something physically engaging really helped. Jogging/Walking are great too. There's a few blogs all about reconfiguring your life too, like http://lifehacker.com/ and http://artofmanliness.com/
Finally, keep in mind that you will get over this and it won't hurt eventually. You'll heal, you'll find someone even better, and things will be awesome again.
And I'm staying in SF all summer. All I'm doing is working 9-5 on campus. We should hang out. I might be going to Fanime, if you're interested. I'm not sure about that though, it depends on payday hah.
First, you probably aren't quite ready for a relationship now. It sounds like you aren't really into this girl anyway, and I wouldn't try to force anything anyway; it would have a good probability of just being a rebound relationship (although, rebound relationships are the fast track to getting over another relationship, it's kind of a mean thing to put the girl you're rebounding with through ya know?).
Second, in my experience the best way to mend a broken heart starts with first removing the person who broke it. "Let's be friends" doesn't work for me right out the gate. It just makes me sad or I'll spend hours staring at their MySpace refreshing it and checking her updates and who comments. I delete their number from my phone, block their Facebook, their Myspace, their Livejournal, etc. Take anything that reminds you of her and put it in a box, and put that box away (unless it's something you need like medicine or something) Depending on the situation I'll explain beforehand of course, "Don't take offense, I would like to be friends at some point, but right now I just need to get over you. Sorry," and then cutting off communications. It doesn't have to be permanent, because you will feel better eventually, but checking in or having that communication on her won't help in the short term. This will be very hard, most definitely, but you'll come out of it much healthier.
You can channel this energy positively though. Add a new hobby that involves a completely new addition to your routine. I started doing long bike rides the last one I had (course I didn't bring my bike with me to college, which sucks), but I found that something physically engaging really helped. Jogging/Walking are great too. There's a few blogs all about reconfiguring your life too, like http://lifehacker.com/ and http://artofmanliness.com/
Finally, keep in mind that you will get over this and it won't hurt eventually. You'll heal, you'll find someone even better, and things will be awesome again.
And I'm staying in SF all summer. All I'm doing is working 9-5 on campus. We should hang out. I might be going to Fanime, if you're interested. I'm not sure about that though, it depends on payday hah.
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