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 Author Thread: 2nd chance... yes or no
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 42 (view)
 
2nd chance... yes or no
Posted: 11/19/2009 4:26:57 AM
Annie, I'll tell you what I tell my two daughters. You have to find your way in life first and be independent on all counts. You can't step into a relationship and have all these expectations of the other person and none of yourself.
Your 21 get a job, a career, a life. If you find someone along the way that you love and respect and they feel the same for you, then you can build a life together.
You say you're still kids but if you want to live together and play grown up then you have to act grown up. Each stage of life brings its responsibility and rewards.
We live in a society that tells us we can have it all and thats true, but we have to pay for it all some how. So maybe once we realise what its all going to cost we might be more selective about what exactly we really do want.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 8 (view)
 
never say goodbye
Posted: 11/18/2009 5:24:03 PM
Nice work maka.
Keep writing.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 6 (view)
 
The Name Of My Ship Is Happiness
Posted: 11/18/2009 5:19:20 PM
OK I read it and now Im putting it back on the shelf. Everyone has their own views and tastes. This isnt mine.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 21 (view)
 
What is the source of our questions ?
Posted: 11/18/2009 4:49:51 AM
TheSunalsoRises response may explain why some people post questions here, but I read the original question in a much broader sense. Why do humans ask questions or further to that why do we seek answers. I suppose there are billions of reasons we ask questions. On a recent trip to the book shop a new best seller was advising women to ask men questions to show them they are interested in them. So the reason they ask questions is self interest. Not for the knowledge, but for an interaction.
Questions are part of communication and why we communicate is a whole other subject.
Why do I wake in the middle of the night and wonder if God chats online?
Its a question I think about when noone is around.
I ask myself questions all the time and I expect myself to answer them. We ask questions so that we can know the world and ourselves better. We ask questions because we can!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 25 (view)
 
Selling Human Beings on the Intergalactic Space Market
Posted: 11/18/2009 4:32:24 AM
Roll up, roll up!
Come see the fabled human race. All six billion boxed up and ready to take home. Each one with its own hopes, dreams and aspirations. Come explore the unknown world of emotions, follow the map of the human heart.
All this and an opposing thumb too!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 12 (view)
 
Miley Cyrus song stuck in my head... Help me please
Posted: 11/17/2009 2:45:13 AM
look up Strawberry Kisses by Nikki Webster, Australians 90's version of Miley.
See its not as bad as it seems!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 82 (view)
 
The dumbing down of society and its impact on children and public mindset towards intelligence
Posted: 11/17/2009 1:35:46 AM
An education is about learning to ask questions and be inquisitive, not to accept everything at face value, not to believe because we were told and perhaps even to believe in ourselves and our dreams and potential, our limitlessness.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 77 (view)
 
The dumbing down of society and its impact on children and public mindset towards intelligence
Posted: 11/16/2009 5:02:58 AM
The saturation of celebrities in reality shows or quiz shows in a new phenomenom, so its hard to tell if our present date "stars" are any dumber then ones of the past. We, the public lust after them and buy anything that they are in. Im sure there is equal quantities of intelligent thinking celebrities, but intelligence doesnt buy ratings. Perhaps we simple ordinary humans find comfort in the fact that the beautiful, rich and talented of the world are at least dumb. Could we cope with them being intelligent as well??
Do I think society is being dumbed down ? Yes. Do I believe it is the media? Yes.
We also need to take responsibility for ourselves and our children. In a society that is happy to blame everyone for its short falls, from Daddy didnt love me to the President, we need to look at watch we accept as good enough. We have free schools that kids play hookie from everyday and when they are there they are disrespectful to their teachers. We have a mentality of not appreciating an education.
Education is a hard fought for luxury for many people in western civilisation and in not even an option for a huge proportion of the world.
We became free by our education and are now becoming enslaved by our worshipping of materialism. The only true wealth is an open mind and an education.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 2 (view)
 
Poems for a better tomorrow, and musings to make you think.
Posted: 10/14/2009 6:35:17 AM
When your today is over and all is said and done
Believe in a new tomorrow when you see the setting sun.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 1268 (view)
 
Haiku Connection - This is It !
Posted: 9/16/2009 6:49:39 AM
the windshield of life
obscured by the falling rain
masks what lies ahead
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 69 (view)
 
Weekly Title Competition: fear
Posted: 1/17/2009 5:51:59 AM
I fear as I dance for the man who sleeps on my sofa
I fear as I lay naked beside the man who does not touch my skin
I fear not at his stupidity
I fear my invisibility
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 52 (view)
 
Weekly Title Competition: I am a Traveller
Posted: 12/30/2008 5:18:08 PM
christian gal thank you
Wendy I enjoyed your contribution. I vote for you.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 48 (view)
 
Weekly Title Competition: I am a Traveller
Posted: 12/29/2008 5:05:47 AM
Only one breath left
One final heartbeat
Last tear falling
No more new days dawning
then hope finds me
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 108 (view)
 
What kind of wildlife lives where you live?
Posted: 12/8/2008 4:59:45 AM
Pretty much the same as the other Aussies have posted.
Kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, lizards of all kinds, goannas, red belly black snakes, possums, magpies, cicadas, frogs,****toos and the occasional black****too, more birds then I know their names. My favourites are the tiny frogs that sit on my kitchen window at night to eat the bugs attracted to the light.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 26 (view)
 
Ehm
Posted: 12/6/2008 4:40:54 AM
I know that girl...There's tattoo on her heart,
But I knew her long ago when her heart was clean
before the trail of inky pin pricks had made their start.

The first was when she had made her mummy sad.
Standing beside the mural of pink and green crayon
Etched onto the blank canvas in bold type appeared the word 'BAD.

The second came in kindergarten when the other kids wouldn't play
They didn't like her name or how she spoke
So 'WOG' was branded deep enough to ensure it was there to stay.

In adolescence when she blossomed like a rose,
the other girls threatened by her beauty called her 'SLUT'
And in her isolation she didnt bother to oppose.

Family, friends and teachers added more through the years
And all their welling meaning intentions
Engraved a plethora of tears.

Then came the boy who promised to love her till death did they part
And in all the years they spent together
He wrote the cruelest and harshest words upon her heart.

One day he packed his bag, said he had said all he had to say
'Failure' spelled itself out
As she watched him walk away.

Then racked in pain she felt her heart finally explode
and that web of lines tattooed over time
cradled her heart and carried her load.

In time as she mended,those words tried to move back into place
wanting to gain control again
but she had had a chance to see beneath that inky lace.

She had seen her heart as it was always meant to be
long before the name calling started
And now one word tatooed on her heart simply reads...'ME'!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 27 (view)
 
Coolest. Number. Ever!
Posted: 11/30/2008 2:28:22 AM
check out youtube for Abbott and Costellos maths.
Now thats cool and out of the box thinking!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 624 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/28/2008 1:18:59 AM
The word "time" has often times been used inappropriately and then just absorbed into our phrases.
Time is used to measure the growing and aging process in people, but we know that that is not a accurate measure of aging in different people. Take a group of 50 year olds and evaluate their physical condition and you will quickly realise that measuring a persons aging process by the orbit of the earth is not a successful or useful tool, and we wont even go into using that to evaluate a persons mental maturation.
We all know how individual we are in our physical and mental make ups and also spirtually if you are open to that, yet we insist in using the cycle of the earth as a measure in the evolution of our individual lives and that of humanity. Gees, we even allow that dogs dont fit in with our earth year and give them the couteousy of "dog years".
We are not a planet that orbits through space.
I like clocks, their slow rythmic ticking is like a gentle calm heartbeat.
Ah maybe we should measure time by the beating of our hearts!!!!!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 613 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/26/2008 5:49:57 AM
I still debate that time is tainted by the standards we put on it.
We measure it with instruments that we make and the measuring of it can only be as good as the instruments, as technology expands we find more complex or intricate ways to measure it, but we are still measuring against what we set in the first place. Time is a concept, its not some thing physical and even if it was its still limited by our ability to examine it.
For instance we thought the world was flat then when we found out it wasnt. We thing we know what orbits our earth and then on day with new technology we find a new planet. Our understanding of how things work is limited by what we already know, but it is the believing that there may be more that we make new discoveries.
Its by thinking outside of the box and having the courage to examine those unorthidox ideas that makes the great discoveries.
All you have to do to understand that is watch some old sci fi movies and see how many of the way out unbelievably ridiculous ideas are now part of our everyday world.

Its late here, Im off to bed. Night all!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 601 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/25/2008 5:43:03 AM
And... talking of our universe and atomic clocks to measure time, but humans arent machines and we dont have the innate ability to measure things so precisely and we are applying all these principles to a universe outside ourselves as if we are purely a pile of matter, but what about the energy we are? Like energy that causes interference to radio waves eg solar flares.
Couldn't we ourselves be those forces that might distort time?????
Why does it have to be something outside of our universe or our world or even outside of ourselves?
Its like not seeing the forest for the trees.
Perhaps instead of looking outwardly for answers we should be looking within.
Maybe we are underestimating our power in it.
We are so busy looking at all the elements involved but we forget that we are part of the equation.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 600 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/25/2008 5:17:02 AM
Wounded, nothing wrong with some merriment at the grave site, but I draw the line at spitting and Im sure some fine scholar from this thread can give us an indepth analysis of the make up of spittle. I just think its a gross thing guys like to do along with the other many gross things that gives meaning to their lifes.
OH now I've done it.... Ive started a gender war and I think Im seriously outnumbered and out smarted here.. so give it all you've got and I'll take it like a man.
On a serious note, as you may have guessed I have no knowledge of the complex theories you guys are discussing here, I just put my two cents in cos I can and no one can tell me to shut up.
How does knowing about a nanosecond alter our experience of it. Really we cant experience it can we? It takes longer to say it then it does to happen.
Im glad though that all this understanding of what makes up matter and time hasn't taken away from its beauty.
I'm intrigued by the stuff you are discussing here and the working of your minds.
You all have this amzaing pool of knowledge, for me the stuff is just way too complex, but I want to understand it.
Pretend Im dumb and explain it to me.
OK, ok probably not a huge leap of the imagination to pretend Im dumb you know what I mean.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 590 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/24/2008 7:45:14 AM
HO2. It sounds to me then that time can be altered, because "time" isn't anything concrete, it is our perception of it.
A year can be broken down into measures called months by a Roman emperor and on the other side of the world in an other kingdom it's all measured differently. Which is right? Is either right???
It's like sound only exists to a person who can hear and colour only for a person who can see. Sound and colour aren't real for these people, it doesnt exist in their world.
A mile or kilometre measures distance between two points. A kilogram measures weight, but even that is irrelevent if there is no gravity. What does time measure? The distance between two events? For example the time it takes the earth to complete a full rotation or the time it takes to complete its orbit around the sun. Set points to start and complete measuring, it's cyclic, it continually repeats itself.
But when looking at the broader meaning of "time" and how it relates to humanity, it can't be measured the same way. Each human life when measured with the principles we use to measure "earths" time varies enormously. So how can something like a humans life be measured mathematically when there is no predictability. The start and end points are uncertain and it does not continuously repeat itself. The only certain thing is that humanity itself repeats itself. It starts, exists and ends over and over and over again and it over laps itself in the billions of humans being born, living and dying at any given point. "Time" measured on a linear scale is limited, its assuming there is a finite amount. Each human has their own "time" which doesn't have to be shared with others. So as an example if there is a billion living breathing humans at any given point on earth then, to use a measure we are familiar with, a span of one minute would actually be one billion minutes because all that time has existed simultaneously and then add that life is continously entering or exiting earth then time is constantly changing. And we havent even applied how that "time" is utilised or the expontential effect of a group of humans utilising their time on the same objective.
All I know is that writing this has taken a whole lot of time.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 586 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/22/2008 11:53:53 PM
Well Wounded your information about physics might be extensive, but I fear your biology is found wanting. That is... your knowledge of biology, not your specific, personal biological makeup. LOL.
One can say LOL in this thread can't they or is that too ordinary????
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 581 (view)
 
What is TIME ??
Posted: 11/22/2008 7:09:04 AM
Time is what you make it.
The slow ticking of the clock through the last half hour of a dull school day.
Night too soon broken by dawn when you are lost in a sweet dream.
We use time to measure moments and days and lifetimes so that we can compare them. Who lived longer. Who achieved more.
We fight time and curse time and blame time for the things we do not do.
We have broken time down into microseconds and nanoseconds and talk of parallel time, but we have not learned to live better for all this knowledge.
We compile statistics about time, like the average person will spend two weeks of their lives waiting at traffic lights. I'd like to know how much time did the person compiling that statistic spending researching it and now that we are aware of that fact what we will do with that information besides print it on the peelable sticky strip on a female hygeine product as amusing bits of trivia.
We spend a lot of time worrying about time or lack of it.
We bemoan our lost years and worry about the future as we let the present slip away.
We sit around writing about what time is late at night suspended in darkness when no giant fireball moves through the sky, hurtling another day into its grave.
Oh I forget, it's us humans pinned to this earth by gravity that go spinning through space, always caught unawares by the first rays of light and then clinging desperately to the last beating our chests with recriminations of another unfruitful day.
So to alleviate our guilt we create weeks and months and years. We give ourselves bigger chunks of time to accomplish that that we cannot do in a day and when a new year begins we make promises to do the things we spent the last 364 days putting off.
Time is an excuse we give ourselves for not being how we should be.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Carnival Heart
Posted: 6/7/2008 4:09:07 AM
Here's my heart
Take aim
Fire away
Like some carnival game

It's weaving
Moving left and right
On display
In plain sight

Have a shot
It's going cheap
Last chance
It's bound for the garbage heap.

Defective one
Amongst the lot
It never stood
Fell down with every shot.

Stupid heart
You aren't the prize
The trophy comes
With your demise.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 9 (view)
 
Short New Year Poem
Posted: 1/3/2008 2:16:12 AM
short and sweet, very clever. made me smile. thanks
Happy New Year
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 12 (view)
 
Italian Christmas sweet Cartedate
Posted: 11/6/2007 10:59:21 PM
Comotoso

thanks for all the links I appreciate it


Mr Raitano Im never wrong!!!!!!! lol ;) except when i say im never wrong
now thats a conundrum....bugger the cartedate!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 9 (view)
 
Italian Christmas sweet Cartedate
Posted: 11/6/2007 6:02:12 PM
I have seen it called cartellate in one cookbook which i was never able to locate again, but the recipe was different.
I will google it and get back
Thanks everyone
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 6 (view)
 
Italian Christmas sweet Cartedate
Posted: 11/6/2007 12:28:25 PM
Thanks for the recipes

The ouzo does give these fritters an anise flavour.
ut as I said they are rolled up like flat rosettes and then deep fried and coated with honey.
The other biscuits sound great I will give them a try.
Also wanted to ask does anyone know of biscuits called taralli.
I have found the aniseed savoury ones that get boiled and then baked from Naples, but these are sweet ones that are baked only and then topped with a glaze made from icing sugar.
This recipe was lost to our family when our grandmother passed away.
We have found varies forms of something similar but not quite the same.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Italian Christmas sweet Cartedate
Posted: 11/6/2007 3:10:58 AM
In my family we traditionally make a sweet called Cartedate.
I have not come across one other Italian family who make or even know of this sweets before they had them at our home.
Ive never seen them in an Italian cookbook either.
MY family's origins are Barese but they were in Egypt for a few generations before coming to Australia.
The cartedate are make from a sweet dough mix of flour sugar oil and ouzo ( obviously an adaptation that occurred in Egypt. I have seen other recipes for sweet dough say to use sweet white wine.)
The dough gets rolled out finely and cut into long strips which are then pinched and rolled into rosette shapes circles.
These are then fried in oil and drained.
A syrup made of honey, chocolate and a little water is then all melted together and the cartedate are dipped in that syrup.
It can also be sprinkled with chopped nuts on the serving platter.
Its not Christmas in our family if there are no Cartedate.
Does anyone else make these??????
If you do maybe we are related, llol!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 228 (view)
 
Why are women over 40 so desperate to get married?
Posted: 11/5/2007 3:44:49 AM
whats LDS??????

If this was Chao's desperate attempt to get attention from women over 40 then he succeded.
Narrow views give u a very narrow path in life.
Enough said.
Except for I agree with the lady that suggested getting run over by a bus is a less painful alternative to getting married, only lets make it a bus with flat tyres!!!!!!!
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 25 (view)
 
Does anyone know how to cook Squid???
Posted: 11/5/2007 3:15:22 AM
marinating them in kiwi juice for about 10 mins tenderises them
not to long though or they will disintegrate
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 51 (view)
 
Have you ever done this? Fess up!
Posted: 11/5/2007 2:54:59 AM
I owned a restaurant and would always give my recipes as they are if asked
people go to restaurants because they want a night out and away from the stove
Besides everyone has their touch and it always alters adish even slightly
its not just the ingredients but how they are handled and cooked that makes a dish as well as there is something special about food that has been cooked with passion
Passion cant be measured or explained in a recipe
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 127 (view)
 
How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/5/2007 2:47:01 AM
My first memory of cooking is carrying the trays of ravioli from the kitchen to lay them out on the tablecloth in the dining room and dusting with flour
cooking was part of everyday
fetching carrying stirring tasting:)
then as I grew up and developed my love of cooking I just devoured all the cooking books I could find
I very rarely follow a recipe but somehow all that reading and watching and tasting has infiltrated my brain and just comes on when I put a pan on the stove.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 32 (view)
 
How do we fix them?
Posted: 11/5/2007 2:36:05 AM
time and exposure

my mum was always a slap dash cook. too busy and exhausted after work
but she did have a few good easy recipes that helped us survive childhood , that and an Italian grandmother.

now that she is retired and has time she enjoys the experience. Dad also had satellite TV put on and mum watched a lot of the Italian cooking shows.
Just have her over for dinner more often and let her watch you cooking quick and simple things from scratch. once she develops a more refined palette she will start to discriminate for herself
my girls have always helped me cook from a young age and my eldest is living away at university now and tends to be the cook of the household. never spends more then half an hour cooking
time and exposure
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 5 (view)
 
AIOLI
Posted: 11/5/2007 2:15:43 AM
super easy cheats aioli

1 whole egg
4 cloves garlic
salt and pepper to taste
some fresh herbs if you like eg basil or parsley or thyme
splash of red wine vinegar

whizz in a blender

slowly add a blend of vegetable and olive oil (if u use all olive oil it can overpower the taste of aioli itself)
Blend the oil in bit by bit till its thick

to drizzle over food you can always take some of the aioli and thin it with a touch of water
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 73 (view)
 
Comfort foods
Posted: 11/3/2007 6:51:57 PM
Chip sandwich

two slices bread heavily buttered
place a large handful of cripsy chips on top of one slice
cover with other slice
smush firmly with palm of hand

u can use any chips personally I like to keep it authentic and use plain

Canadian friend of mine asked if you can use wholemeal bread
seriously dont even bother trying to make this sandwich nutritionally sound
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 71 (view)
 
Open Your Fantasy Restaurant, What Would It Be??
Posted: 11/3/2007 6:41:24 PM
Hold on to your arteries. Mine would be a restaurant that only made fried foods. Yep, greasy, fattening fried foods. I would have chicken wings, cheese sticks, onion rings, mushrooms, shrimp, potato skins..........and lots more, all deep fried.

Hope you take out a huge public liability insurance policy or have customers sign a no liability disclaimer upon placing their orders
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 37 (view)
 
What recipes won't you personally make?
Posted: 11/3/2007 6:36:11 PM
Sorry about the spelling
suffering from caffeine withdrawal
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 36 (view)
 
What recipes won't you personally make?
Posted: 11/3/2007 6:33:29 PM
That camel recipe is a doosey.
It sounds a bit like the "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly".
Take on spider and stuuf it with a fly, that that spider and stuff it into a bird.
find on plump feline stuff with about mentioned bird and so on and so forth.

How the hell do u get the camel onto the spit??????
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 34 (view)
 
Chicken and Dumplings
Posted: 11/3/2007 6:17:24 PM
PS this forum is making me hungry
wheres the ritz crackers and cheese in a can?????????????
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 33 (view)
 
Chicken and Dumplings
Posted: 11/3/2007 6:15:57 PM
Hey people

no bickering
we all love our food and a lot of it comes from what we were raised on
Even poor old Jamie Oliver had a hard time feeding people in Italy because it wasnt how their mammas made it
Coming from an Italian family myself, its very true.
My kids wont go to Italian restaurants because they end up comparing it to mine.
The tastes and smells of home have a way of appeasing us that no 5 michelin star meal ever could.
Having said that, finding new flavour combos that you do experience in restaurants where the chefs are avante garde is such a trip.
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 5 (view)
 
Easy super meal for those when they are strapped for cash and looking in the cupboards
Posted: 11/3/2007 5:51:04 PM
OK I thought I posted but it doesnt appear here so if im being repetitive I apoligise.
I agree with the girls, lentils and pasta are tasty and cheap fillers. adding pasta to your lentil soup really bulks it out too.
Too make meat stretch further take beef, thinly sliced and pounded out and stuuf it with a boiled egg some cheese and herbs, roll it up and tie it up with some thread, dont use synthtic thread, plain white sewing cotton is fine.
brown it off and then put it on a really slow stew covered in crushed tomatoes.
Its time intensive but cook of a batch and freeze the extra portions.
Serve with pasta and the sauce.
Its a gourmet meal without the expense.
Enjoy
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 94 (view)
 
How can you tell if your ex has mad a mistake and wants to come back
Posted: 10/22/2007 7:39:41 AM
Finally true words of wisdom thank you
 timetripper
Joined: 10/17/2007
Msg: 7 (view)
 
What am I missing???
Posted: 10/22/2007 7:11:51 AM
Hi

Im sorry to hear about your marriage.
I'm in a similar situation in that we were married 22 years and together 26 years. I had started dating him at 15 and he was all I knew.
He has never talked of reconciling, he pretty much moved on with his life and very quickly met someone else and now lives with them.
We have been separated 18 months now and I have dated other men, but its just not the same for me either.
Sometimes I think Im over it and then this wave hits me and it brings me to my knees. Its everything that went with that relationship, the idea of the family, the kids, friends family connections, lifestyle, financial security, everything is swept away and you have to start living a different life.
My "new" life still feels like a sham, it feels like Im living someone elses life. I still havent found my place in this new world.
Every guy I meet just reminds how different he is too my ex. I never knew an other man so intimately, I have only him to compare too, so in some ways they all seem strange.
What amazes me is that I never cross his mind, he is never compelled to pick up the phone and just ask me how im coping. I cant believe that 26 years of his life means nothing to him.
But
thats the way it is and thats the way it is!!!!
Im reconciling the fact that I will never understand he's thoughts or opinions or sentiments in regards to our relationship. What hurts is that he cant understand the way I feel, but I suppose thats what made the marriage end. We didnt think the same way anymore and neither of us could understand the other.
They say you marry one person and divorce an other.
But its also true for the other partner, they probably think they have ceased knowing who you are.
Im glad I stubbled across this thread. The people here have had many wise words to say.
I wish you the best and maybe some comfort in your heart ache.
Some things in life come along and change us a little. Some are so intense they tear us apart and we are forced to reconstruct ourselves as something new.
Thats scary but also very exciting.
Believe that you will have the strength to reconstruct because in reality you have no other choice. Be excited about who you will become.
 
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