larasteele
07-11-2003, 04:44 PM
Hi there Ageless friends new and not so new! I've been keeping up with the boards, a bit, as best as I could. I know I haven't been posting many replies...well, often times anymore, I find that what is being posted doesn't apply to me, or I can't apply any of my experience to it....yeah. Well, I do post when I have something to say...and boy, do I have something to say now!!
I went on vacation in May, Memorial day...It was refreshing and wonderful, reviving. I had been taking the time to "get over" my last romantic-type adventure, cause, as we all know, I was riding the rollercoaster on that one. Well, some times all it really takes is time; that is the only explaination I have for why I felt so ready to begin again when I returned from vacation. It was a matter of "well, THAT one didn't work out as planned, but I got a friend out of it...let's not give up, though...."
There is a man who I had noticed in a vague sort of way...He was interesting, and fun to talk to, and great all around. He is older, yes, before anyone asks. He is 40. Unfortunately, most of the wonderful qualities of him escaped my notice when I was occupied otherwise. Good thing I came back with eyes wide open...because he was the first thing I noticed when I returned. In a "hmmm, what have we here?" sort of way....
Well, I'm sort of supersticious, so I had been afraid to broadcast these things here. Like, if you talk too much about good luck, your luck will fail...silly, but some vague notion that sticks with me....
We took a few weeks to get to know each other, and then--this is GREAT--he just flat out said "hey, I like you...." LOL How refreshing! How wonderful!! Just to say it like that...well, his courage seems to rub off, for I quickly replied that I like him too....
It has almost been a month now. We have had only one date--and WOW to that date--we live about an hour away from each other, there were scheduling conflicts, then I went on vacation for the Fourth, now I'm working eight days straight to make up for lost time...but it grows. And grows. And I am happy, content, peaceful....
He is wonderful, with his directness and honesty. I've never felt so free to say exactly what I think and feel. Always, before, there was this feeling that "if I say that, I'll scare him off/put pressure on things/screw it up..." But now...WOW! Love letters are great! I write them, he writes them, he writes me poetry, we have conversations that speed the world up--suddenly, hours have gone by and I never noticed, so absorbed was I in him.
I never knew that these things could be so easy! For this one is. Just relaxed and easy and amazing...I don't worry too much about the future yet, because the present is such fun....I don't worry about problems, age related or not, that we will have, because we have none so far....
It's so easy! And I'm so happy...still, somewhere, my fingers are crossed behind my back, hoping that things continue to go as well as they have begun.
And that's me. Hope to hear from you all too, as to how your lives have truly been while I was...um, distracted.
I went on vacation in May, Memorial day...It was refreshing and wonderful, reviving. I had been taking the time to "get over" my last romantic-type adventure, cause, as we all know, I was riding the rollercoaster on that one. Well, some times all it really takes is time; that is the only explaination I have for why I felt so ready to begin again when I returned from vacation. It was a matter of "well, THAT one didn't work out as planned, but I got a friend out of it...let's not give up, though...."
There is a man who I had noticed in a vague sort of way...He was interesting, and fun to talk to, and great all around. He is older, yes, before anyone asks. He is 40. Unfortunately, most of the wonderful qualities of him escaped my notice when I was occupied otherwise. Good thing I came back with eyes wide open...because he was the first thing I noticed when I returned. In a "hmmm, what have we here?" sort of way....
Well, I'm sort of supersticious, so I had been afraid to broadcast these things here. Like, if you talk too much about good luck, your luck will fail...silly, but some vague notion that sticks with me....
We took a few weeks to get to know each other, and then--this is GREAT--he just flat out said "hey, I like you...." LOL How refreshing! How wonderful!! Just to say it like that...well, his courage seems to rub off, for I quickly replied that I like him too....
It has almost been a month now. We have had only one date--and WOW to that date--we live about an hour away from each other, there were scheduling conflicts, then I went on vacation for the Fourth, now I'm working eight days straight to make up for lost time...but it grows. And grows. And I am happy, content, peaceful....
He is wonderful, with his directness and honesty. I've never felt so free to say exactly what I think and feel. Always, before, there was this feeling that "if I say that, I'll scare him off/put pressure on things/screw it up..." But now...WOW! Love letters are great! I write them, he writes them, he writes me poetry, we have conversations that speed the world up--suddenly, hours have gone by and I never noticed, so absorbed was I in him.
I never knew that these things could be so easy! For this one is. Just relaxed and easy and amazing...I don't worry too much about the future yet, because the present is such fun....I don't worry about problems, age related or not, that we will have, because we have none so far....
It's so easy! And I'm so happy...still, somewhere, my fingers are crossed behind my back, hoping that things continue to go as well as they have begun.
And that's me. Hope to hear from you all too, as to how your lives have truly been while I was...um, distracted.