All humans are a mess, but gays seem especially so.
The let's just be friend spiel should never be used, especially preemptively.
Significance is to humans, as water is to plants. Without it we wither root and branch.
Looks are always a factor in attraction, pretending they're not does not make it so.
Attraction is a mystery which cannot be unraveled by Science, Philosophy, Theology, or any human wisdom whatsoever.
Exclusion and loneliness are self-reinforcing. We can feel excluded at times, but we compound the problem when we let that keep us from joining in every time.
If crushing were an Olympic sport I'd have an gold medal by now.
I value empathy, compassion, and love above almost anything else.
I am full of good advice, probably because I don't use it on myself.