Originally Posted by G-man
In re-reading this thread, this particular moment really stuck in my mind. Just as it did the first time I read it.The total, off-the-charts cruelty of it is just incomprehensible to me, I guess. I mean, I’m certainly aware that there are incredibly spiteful, hateful people out there who say and do heinous things all the time; I’ve had the displeasure of running across such people at various points in my life. But this? This type of abject maliciousness? Ugh. It just kills me.
It’s kind of the same way I feel if I happen to catch some bizarre clip channel surfing and stumbling onto the Jerry Springer show. Sometimes I really feel it has to be contrived for the sake of ratings, but when I see the headlines in the newspaper, it realizes that humanity can stoop to lower things then a few barbed words, or a malicious swat below the belt, pun intended.
I’ve said things to people I’ve regretted in the heat of an argument. One of the nice things about writing is you get a chance to review it before it hits the other person. I almost wish I had a 10 minute “edit limit” on things I say from time to time, since I tend to fire from the hip a lot verbally.
It’s like yesterday, we were at the family’s for a post funeral get together, and I ran into some relatives I hadn’t seen since I was 265 lbs. One of them says, “Gee you lost a lot of weight….why so much?” My brutally honest reply was, “I was tired of being fat.” Duh. No consideration for the people in the room who were struggling with being overweight. I didn’t even think of it, and I felt like shit, because I knew I hurt some feelings. It wasn’t vindictive, just ignorant. So, today I’m posting in semi-guilt mode…..
I don’t want to dismiss my ex for what she said. That afternoon left me celibate for a long time. I remember the apprehension I felt the day I dropped my pants for a woman when I actually got laid again. My ex had proved to me many times over the handful of years we have had to interact over our daughter that she is pretty mental. She was an effective manipulator, and I almost feel like she was desperately trying anything to regain that hold…..but it’s my guess, that’s all.
But it still doesn’t make me not want to “get even”. It’s not my driving force to start PE, just a side benefit. Yes, us humans are complex creatures.
G-man, I’m truly glad it is incomprehensible to you. It gives me a lot of hope.
Originally Posted by Maxtro
Wait for the right girl….. At this age I don’t know if I can. I honestly believed I knew the “right girl’ in High School but it didn’t happen and that was 4 years ago. After that I got a I’ll take what I can get or what is offered mentality. Now its became so bad that I’m considering paying for it. I think I’ve decided that If I”m not getting closer to a girl between now and when I get a job, thats whats going to happen. I’ve got other issues beyond virginity and penis size but this is not the place.
Yeah, I guess we all have other issues. I was just trying to be helpful, as CC was also. We’ve been there, felt the same pressure to “get laid soon”, probably considered hookers at one point or another. It reminds me of the line, “I’m looking for Miss Right, but I’ll settle for Miss Blow-job.” I think a lot of decisions I made when I was 20’ish were fueled by desperation. I knew my ex’s “sluttyness” for a fact, since we were friends for quite a few years beforehand. I settled for banging her, and wanted to get out of the relationship shortly thereafter, and lo and behold, she’s pregnant. She knew what she was doing. I wasn’t religious at the time, but I felt funny about asking her to have an abortion, it just didn’t feel right to me. So I was kind of trapped, in my own little mind. But that’s me.
I tried to condense it into “Wait for the right girl”. Maybe a better approach is just to urge you to consider what you are doing, so you don’t look back later in life and regret it. We all are capable of doing stupid shit when we are desperate. I hope it works out for you.