Blog Away. What Would You Do If You Knew Your Number Was Almost Up?
In a review of DK's posthumously published poetry, I said that as he looked at you he did so with deeper insight than other folk. Thinking on something Pete Kalu said last evening, I realised that was a necessity for him arising out of his then situation.
Specifically what I was referring to was the style of communication from him which said: we've only just met but we're friends lets get going. There isn't (to my eyes) any reason why one can't make a snap correct decision on any new acquaintance and be right much more often than one is wrong.
The convention is that one takes a long, sometimes l-o-o-n-g while
to be friends with people. What Dike was saying which of course I didn't realise was: per what I wrote above. It made sometimes for magical times with the guy
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missed you ed
don't know anyone who can say it like you.
thinkin, often make a snap correct decision on a new acquaintance but takes a while to be friends cos haven't quite made the decision on myself, i.e. what am i gonna show/give away.
dunno if that makes sense.
Thank you. I understand what
Thank you. I understand what you said. To put it another way: one is nervous. Nervous of what? One is just nervous. It's the convention...
While we're on this. I did something once which frightened the life out of me.Again there is no reason one shouldn't do this whenever the occasion dictates such action
I ran into this chap oince. Friend of a friend of a friend. I was saying to him all kinds of things I don't say to people who've known me for decades. Not talking about problems as such but private things one doesn't know who one can trust such information with. Happened my sister said to me around then to do something interesting - on my birthday it was. So I phoned up this chap - it frightened as I said for me to do it - I felt slightly but only very slightly, a creep as I was speaking; I said 'I like you'.
Neither of us is gay and he didn't anyway draw such an inference. But it worked the same as if we danced around one another for 18 months and then decided to be mates.
And I know there's no reason anybody can't do that and have the same result each time
Yet I don't know I'll ever do it again
And, I've met a couple of people at least who ideally would also like to short-circuit the normal tentativeness as I did.
Thanks for the feedback ...