11.28.2011

just hold on loosely, but don't let go

  • If you could go back in time what would your current day self tell your 18-year-old self?
    • finish the Mass Communications degree - at least the Minor. It will pay off in ways you can't imagine.
    • stay away from Brian-the-Army-guy; he will break your damned heart.
    • take the $100 cash home before you go to the party, stupid.
    • when you get the chance to date the rugby-playing dishwasher: don't.
    • take every class you can from your mentor, even if they're a lot of work and he kind of scares you sometimes. It's totally worth it.
    • buy the flowered dress!
    • when you want to break up with Steve because he's got a kid and you think you're too young: don't. You'll regret it.
  • Name one thing you could do to improve any important relationship in your life.
    I'm doing it--I'm letting go.
  • If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions, whom would you question, and what would you ask?
    I'm not sure that I could ever really ask the questions, since it's a basic tenet of my life that I don't ask questions that I don't want to know the answers to. But I suppose that some part of me does want to know them, to whatever end, or they wouldn't be here, right? So, Counselor...
    • Did you ever return my affection, or was it always strictly business?
    • What was the deal with your boot heels on the edge of my bench? If that was just lunch between would-be colleagues, you should know that it sent a very different message that I spent it 'trapped' - and gratefully so - essentially between your legs. While we drank, relatively heavily, and talked off and on about sex.
    • When did you figure out that I was interested in you? Was it in the emails? Or at lunch? Or was it during the deliberation, or even before the regular jurors left the room? That was a bizarre game that we played, with the others who may not have even realized that they were playing. I wish I hadn't lost it so badly.
[from The Cat, who got it here; title quotation is from Hold on Loosely by .38 Special]

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