5-29-2005

19 Comments on “5-29-2005”

1. March 31, 2009  by  Friend

   To the one who cried at the movie but not for the thousands of Tsunami victims…don’t beat yourself up about it. That is normal human behavior.

   Our minds and emotional selves can only process so much. A single incident, even a fake one, is easier to digest emotionally than a real, enormous incident.

   We tend to file it away as a “big tragedy”, but the pain is in the details. And it’s hard to see the details in something that enormous. It’s hard to personalize OR relate to something so huge.
2. April 2, 2009  by  French

   Je detest chaque partie de mon corps (sauf mes mains.)= I hate every part of my body except my hands.
3. September 29, 2009  by  bink

   to the “mind reading” secret, you are not alone. i do the same thing.
4. October 6, 2009  by  El Woolley

   If the one about Babaar wasn’t pretty much word for word copied from Frankie Boyle’s Lie on “Would I lie to you” last month, it would have been better. :/
5. November 1, 2009  by  Rachel

   I, too, fear losing weight. I’ve been just a bit heavy all my life and I’m very afraid that I could lose weight and men still wouldn’t see me. Also, I’d have to face my inexperience with men, which is frightening. I’m still ashamed of the time I told a man I was dating that I was a virgin, and he wanted to know if I was a lesbian (I’m not).
6. December 13, 2009  by  L

   I completely undertsnad. I’ve been hiding behind my weight for so long. I’m starting to lose quite a bit and am wondering who I am without it? Its defined me, its protected me from men…I wonder if I should gain it back. Its safer.
7. December 29, 2009  by  M

   @ je dèteste mon corps–

   Je pense de la même façon à propos de mon corps, mais je t’assure, tu n’es pas si laide que tu crois. Je sais de l’expérience que les mots d’une étrangère sur l’Internet ne vais pas t’aider, mais j’espère que tu vois dans toi-même ce que je vois dans tous les filles que me passent sur la rue…nous pensons de toi les mêmes choses que tu penses de les autres.

   Excuse mon français, s’il-te-plait, je suis Anglophone
8. January 19, 2010  by  Tasha

   I feel the same way about my fear of men.
9. June 20, 2010  by  K

   To the one afraid of losing weight, I think I recognize your handwriting. If it’s you, I was your student a while ago and I am so sorry I was mean to you back then.
10. August 2, 2010  by  Chanchan

    I do the mind reading one all the time! Once or twice a day.
11. August 27, 2010  by  Kate

    To the mind reading one:

    That’s why I prefer to be alone. I can’t think freely when I’m with people, I always have to alter my thoughts so they won’t know what I think about them, and me.

    I spend all my time wondering what someone who could read minds would be like, and then I compare my peers to that person.

    It’s horrible.
12. October 4, 2010  by  maria

    Sometimes I wonder if people read my mind too. I do the exact same thing. And then I can’t stop thinking about the thing I don’t want them to hear.
13. February 17, 2011  by  broken heart

    Rachel,
    I would take it as a compliment…He didn’t see your physicality as a problem. He thinks you could easily get a man probably because he thinks you’re attractive! Lots of men prefer big, beautiful women.
14. March 6, 2011  by  Marzipan

    Thank you #French for the translation! (Solo hablo un poquito Espanol… terriblemente.)
15. June 19, 2011  by  uninnocent

    i regret every day that i gave my virginity to the wrong person. it makes me want to kill myself. but i just wanted him to love me because no one else would.
16. March 18, 2012  by  Jane

    To the others who are afraid of losing weight: it looks like we are everywhere. I lost a sh*tload of weight a few years ago and I think I was so scared of the interest I got from men, and so lost without the identity the fat gave me that I put quite a bit of it back on. But the real secret is how much we will regret what we miss out on if we succumb to this fear.
17. March 18, 2012  by  Broken Heart

    To Jane and everybody else who is afraid of being their so-called “ideal weight” — Anyone who is worthy of YOUR attention will love you and accept you no matter what your size. Your size could become a practical problem, but if love can be said to be colorblind, love is also impaired as to its ability to see differences in size. The secret is to having the patience to weed-out all the jerks who refuse to be with someone who doesn’t fit their idea of the perfect mate. It took me years of writing and rewriting my profile, affixing it to so many sites, etc., but someone who is practically MY ideal match found me, and I’m so happy I found the site on which he found me. I’m so glad none of those guys I used to pursue ever sincerely pursued me in return, because none of them are even capable of the love that my Sweet gives me. And he’s so much more eloquent than those guys, and I thought THEY were pretty darn well-spoken.
18. April 24, 2012  by  Erin

    I write to escape too. Lately I’ve been writing more. Can somebody never return?
19. September 20, 2012  by  david

    postcard #4

    I got married 9 months ago. I feel my wife feels the same way about me sometimes.