Past few weeks....
So boys and girls a few interesting things have been going on recently. One I have been working my butt off for my new job in Ypsilanti. I work at a Rent A Center on S. Grove just down from Prospect. Think Grove and I-94 service Drive. It is about 50 hours a week. I still live in Farmington Hills, so I have a little drive. About 35 minutes. Not bad, but I think I will be moving down there soon. The more I see of Ypsi the more I like Ann Arbor though.
The next interesting thing going on is I am talking to my old flame and High School sweetheart. She lives in Chicago, and I have not talked to her in about 4 years. Lots of things clearly have happened, but she is not married. Which in my book is a good thing. Though she is a great girl and she I would expect would be, since she is so great. I missed the conversations we used to have, and it is more than great to be able to chat with her. I wish she was closer. But then I could not schedule a road trip could I?
I guess I am questioning if my feelings for her really left or if they were out of sight and out of mind, still there, but tucked away in case I needed it. The only way to know for sure I think is to see her. I kinda feel like that guy on Felicity that went to New York to kiss her and see if what he felt during summer school was real or if it was just a passing moment. I admire his courage to find out, I wonder if I have that courage? I s'pose we will have to see. Perhaps we never get over our first love, but we find a way to move on.
Someone once said that the best love is the first love. Thinking back to this H.S. sweetheart, perhaps that is true, it was innocent, pure, and unselfish, we always wanted to make sure we pleased the other with our choices. Sometimes that meant sacrifice.
In my old age, I am beginning to think that Love is more difficult to come by as we get older. Too many preconcieved notions that fill our heads from past experiences. Too much selfishness as to what I want. Thus, purity of Love is gone. Certainly no one wants to make sacrifices either. But what is Love with out Sacrifice? Probably Infatuation.
I pray that Love takes pity on me and helps me find the one for me. I just hope I am not too blind to see it.
~Gary
The next interesting thing going on is I am talking to my old flame and High School sweetheart. She lives in Chicago, and I have not talked to her in about 4 years. Lots of things clearly have happened, but she is not married. Which in my book is a good thing. Though she is a great girl and she I would expect would be, since she is so great. I missed the conversations we used to have, and it is more than great to be able to chat with her. I wish she was closer. But then I could not schedule a road trip could I?
I guess I am questioning if my feelings for her really left or if they were out of sight and out of mind, still there, but tucked away in case I needed it. The only way to know for sure I think is to see her. I kinda feel like that guy on Felicity that went to New York to kiss her and see if what he felt during summer school was real or if it was just a passing moment. I admire his courage to find out, I wonder if I have that courage? I s'pose we will have to see. Perhaps we never get over our first love, but we find a way to move on.
Someone once said that the best love is the first love. Thinking back to this H.S. sweetheart, perhaps that is true, it was innocent, pure, and unselfish, we always wanted to make sure we pleased the other with our choices. Sometimes that meant sacrifice.
In my old age, I am beginning to think that Love is more difficult to come by as we get older. Too many preconcieved notions that fill our heads from past experiences. Too much selfishness as to what I want. Thus, purity of Love is gone. Certainly no one wants to make sacrifices either. But what is Love with out Sacrifice? Probably Infatuation.
I pray that Love takes pity on me and helps me find the one for me. I just hope I am not too blind to see it.
~Gary