I’ve been crushing on my guy friend for at least 6 months and for a while, I thought he liked me that way…now, I’m not so sure. I’m certain I’d end up looking like a fool if I told him my feelings (and possibly damage a friendship in the process…)
I’m surprised few people out there have this goal.
I’ve just recently decided to take the plunge and invite people not normally in my social circle to a party. I was a nervous wreck choosing who to invite but people who I never would have considered inviting before seem excited about the event. Now I’m excited and I’m just thinking that this is a great way to spend time with people I normally wouldn’t spend time with or just to get to know accquaintances better.
..do I really want to get over him? If I really dug deep, I’d most likely say “no”.
I actually got to spend about an hour or so with my crush with a group of other guys not so long ago. I don’t know what it is with crushes but even with their faults, you still like them. My crush wouldn’t stop talking about other girls (making it really awkward for me since I was the only girl at the table). Most people would call this guy self-absorbed but for some reason, I think he might just be pushing too hard to impress everyone..maybe he’s insecure himself? Fortunately, other girls wasn’t the only thing we talked about.
Even with the half one-sided conversations, I still felt extremely happy after having spent months not speaking to each other. We finally had a long conversation. But then, what is up with people who ignore each other the next time they see each other…after having just talked to each other for a good length of time mere days or weeks ago? Maybe I just need to take more initiative and keep talking to him instead of waiting for him to come talk to me.
I was at one point or another very close to my cousins who are around the same age as me.
We still are in some ways…that is, if we talk one on one. In a group setting, it seems like it’s easier to ignore people. I’ve fallen apart with some and grown closer to others. There are a couple of cousins I’m still pretty close to (as in we’ll always talk to each other when we see each other). We don’t have that many family get-togethers anymore but when I do, I realize how much I miss just hanging out with my cousins. I’ve grown up with these people and sometimes (if you live in the same city especially), they might be even easier to keep in touch with than friends because of the familial connection (ie. more likely to get invited to the same family parties, dinners, etc.).
Guys are fun to be friends with. For one things, guys have a different sense of humour from girls. You can’t poke fun at your girlfriends the same way you can with your guy friends.
I’ve seen more movies this year than probably any other previous year.
Movies give you an opportunity to hang out with friends for at least a couple of hours, be engaged in a story, laugh more than you will laugh in an entire day, possibly feel sad or heartbroken, and it’s always fun to discuss movies with friends afterwards.
I’ve realized over the past week that I do have best friends. The problem was that I defined them as people you see everyday and talk to everyday. That’s not always necessarily the case.
I have a friend who has been gone for two to three months and is finally home from her trip. As soon as she got home, though, she let me know and we call each other a lot now.
I have another friend who I haven’t talked to in months and suddenly called me the other day and we ended up talking for over an hour.
Today, I saw someone I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. I was so nervous to see him again but the moment I saw him and we started talking, it’s like time had passed (just from the questions we were asking each other) and at the same time, not passed because I no longer felt nervous talking to him.
I think being best friends with someone can mean being at total ease talking to the other person even after so much time has passed..but that idea that a best friend is someone you spend tons of time with still nags at me. So what do you call the former? Is there even a name for that? Maybe just a true and natural connection to certain people that you don’t have with others perhaps?
It took me almost three years since I bought it to finish “The Godfather”. I’m currently trying to get through the fifth Harry Potter book I bought last month and I’ve managed to get through half of it…pretty good considering my last effort! I bought “Wuthering Heights” and “Frankenstein” back in February and have yet to finish those.
It’s so weird because I used to be such a bookworm before I went to post-secondary school. I also have a problem with buying movies and not watching them for months on end.
I don’t understand why so many people don’t do this. I think people are just lazy.
If you get separate bins for different types of recycables (ie. plastics, newspapers, cardboard, normal paper, etc.) it’s not that hard. Actually, all that separating happens later.
We place “all recycle trash cans” beside the “garbage” garbage in the washroom and in my room. So if there are scrap pieces of paper or empty tissue rolls to be thrown away, they’re put in the recycle cans rather than in the trash and later separated and put in their respectable bins downstairs. In the kitchen, we have recycle bins. The basket in the pantry is where all the paper/cardboard go and the can under the sink is where any type of plastic or glass goes. Again, both are later taken to the large categorized recycle bins to be separated.
It sounds like a lot of work but once you do it on a regular basis, you don’t even think twice about it.
At work, the amount of bottles being thrown in the trash just aggravates me. Haha. I used to take a plastic bag and keep it in the backroom taking bottles out of the trash and not taking the bag home until it’s full but my boss is supposedly allergic to fruit flies (he claimes that they’re attracted to empty bottles) so whenever I’m working, I just take home bottles after every shift. Just because people around you refuse to recycle doesn’t mean I have to.
Many people have too many acquaintances and not enough friends. And by “friends”, I don’t mean people you give a shout out to on Facebook or on the street, but people you care enough about to make the effort to get to know better and vice versa.
I’ve actually turned some acquaintances into good friends in the last year…but I’d like to turn more people from my list of acquaintances over to my friends list. I know this takes time and effort from both sides. Unfortunately, the reason why so many people don’t have a lot of real friends right now is because they always expect someone else to put in the effort to befriend them. Even worse, if someone does try to befriend them, they don’t reciprocate.
I’ve been meaning to do this because there’s this less-well-known movie (“Gracie”) I REALLY wanna go see and I don’t know of anyone who’s heard of it nor would be interested in seeing it.
I’m making it my mission to go watch it tomorrow. :)
It’s quite sad but the only hockey game I’ve ever been to are the amateur ones (ie. my friend’s practice or other practice ones at the rec centre). I’m living in one of the legendary hockey cities of the world and have not gone to an Oilers game yet. :(
I’ve talked to him but now I wish it would grow into the kind of relationship where he’d actively want to talk to me. Unfortunately, there isn’t much opportunity for that since we hardly see each other.
I’ve been crushing on this one guy for 10 months and wasted two months acting like a stuck-up bitch ignoring him…he didn’t try talking to me, either..but I can’t really blame him. Haha.
Then we just happened to be at the same place at the same time one day (like so many other times..except this time…we weren’t in a room full of people so it would have been far too awkward to just keep ignoring each other) and I finally had the courage to initiate a conversation. He was actually paying attention to what I was saying that I wanna kick myself now for not having tried to talk to him sooner.
Of course, things are never that easy and I think I created some rather awkward situations for us..at one point, it seemed like he was ignoring me all over again. And being a rather timid person, it took just as much guts to try and initiate other conversations with him…we rarely saw each other in the second term (we didn’t have any classes together) but a couple of times when I crossed paths with him, he actually waved and once asked how I was doing. As minute as that sounds…to me, it’s progress since we went from being in the same class and not speaking to each other to acknowledging that we know each other when we see each other on the street.
It’s summer now and I haven’t seen him but I’ll see him again when school starts so I’ll see where things go.
I feel like I’ve experienced this but some may simply call it an infatuation.
Yeah, the guy was hot but I remember hearing his voice and just turning to see who it belonged to…his personality just seemed right. And since then, I’ve seen some of his flaws and imperfections but I don’t think of him any less.
Of course, love at first sight is best when it’s actually reciprocated..and I have yet to experience that. :(
I actually had a crush on a coworker a few years ago but then I quit the job (no, I didn’t quit because I wanted to get over my crush) and not having seen him since, I’ve finally stopped crushing on him. I recently found him on Facebook and didn’t feel like I wanted anything more from him other than friendship.
Currently, though…I’ve had a crush on this other guy for 10 months now. We were in the same class together for one semester..the first time I saw him, I just instantly felt drawn to him. That’s honestly the first time I’ve felt like that about anybody. I’ve had crushes before but nothing like this one. We used to not talk to each other at all (I probably came across as a snobby bitch because I was just too scared to try and talk to him)...I tried to find as many reasons as I could not to like this guy and for about a week or two succeeded..but one day, I finally found the guts to initiate a conversation, he jumped right into the conversation and was extremely friendly..and I was crushing all over him again.
Long story short, school’s done..he’s on my Facebook but for the most part, I feel like I’m always the one initiating the conversations. He’ll reply to almost everything (if I start a conversation) but sometimes he doesn’t…and I’m not sure if it’s because he’s not much of a facebook person or if he just doesn’t care to talk to me. Online relationships are limiting for the most part (unless you have a good real life relationship with someone) so I think I’ll give up on trying to talk to him until I see him again once school starts.
I’ve read that a lot of people consider their crushes to be perfect..well, I know my crush isn’t perfect. But I really like him nevertheless. It sucks feeling sad over not feeling noticed by someone you like…part of me wants to get over it already and another part is just amazed that I can feel this strongly for someone.
I’ve been to too many to count. I still remember my first concert: The Tragically Hip with opener Sam Roberts (before he got popular).
That’s another beauty to concerts. I remember seeing some opening bands play in these small venues becoming headliners at big arenas.
I was having trouble making new friends in university. It’s really tough when you have large classes and everyone seems to know each other already.
Fortunately, this year, my classes were smaller and it was easier to talk to people more. I also decided to participate in some extracurricular activities. I found that there were people in the student group that I joined who were also in my classes (strange coincidence, indeed).
If you’re shy (like me), get people’s emails or facebook them…I’ve started to hang out with friends I never thought of hanging out with because they suggested we go out and do something over facebook or what have you.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been shy. I’ve tried my best not to be shy but I just don’t feel comfortable around people I don’t know unless they have personalities which I “gel” with.
I’d say I’m confident enough to go out and do things most shy people wouldn’t want to do. I’m a newspaper writer (so I have to talk to people I don’t personally know over the phone), I’m willing to go on trips with people I don’t know, etc. But if you were to put me in a bar and make me go around to talk to random people..I just couldn’t do it!
I think sometimes..you just gotta give things time. People I used to feel shy around..I don’t feel so shy around them anymore because I’ve come to spend so much time with them..and after a while, you’re just kinda forced into knowing more about each other and feeling comfortable together. Other times, I’ve been lucky to have met people who have outgoing personalities and actually want to hang out with me. Haha…but I know I wouldn’t have made those friends if I hadn’t bothered to start talking to them or respond to their attempts to talk to them. So that’s really the first step: getting people to know you care about what they have to say and letting them know that you want to know them better.
