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Notebook

David Jennings · June 18, 2005 · 3 Comments

That is the name of the movie that SU and I watched tonight and I highly recommend it. That is if you are a hopeless romantic, a man morphing into a woman, half of a wonderful marriage, need a good (happy) cry or just want to get away for an hour and a half.

I felt like I was part of that story. Close yet far. Time standing still. Memories of a forgotten life. All a part of who I am, have become and am becoming.

Messy Christian had a very interesting post about loneliness. As a professional writer, she is able to capture some feelings and put them into words very well. Which she did in this case. Unfortunately, she missed part of the bigger picture. Loneliness strikes all people, including those with SU’s or significant others (SO’s), not just singles that are between relationships.

Loneliness strikes for many reasons but mostly because we as humans are afraid to expose ourselves to hurt via rejection. How many years must married couples live in the same household before that are truly able to share the space? To realize that they are part of a team, not separate indivduals? As the relationship between SU and I continues to evolve, I look back on all the missed opportunities, missed because I was afraid. Afraid to expose parts of me, parts that would surely be rejected. Only to find out that there was no rejection, only love.

One of the things that I need to work on is allowing other people into my comfort zone. It isn’t easy. Fear. Rejection. Boring, he’s so boring! Stupid, he’s so stupid! Backwoods, he’s so backwoods! Late.

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  1. BigJolly says….. » Slow day at work says:
    May 11, 2006 at 10:33 am

    […] Also been reviewing my blog stats today. Kinda hard to imagine so many people clicking onto Bigjolly, never would’ve predicted that. Noticed that my number 1 read post was Mask, with the number 2, Notebook, nipping at the heels. Strange to go back and read things that I write, oftentimes it’s like reading something someone else wrote. Especially something like Notebook, which is almost a year old now. Or this one, So Many Things. […]

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  2. BigJolly says….. » Loneliness says:
    January 16, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    […] I think that so often we as a society and most particularly as The Church, tend to minimize the emotion of loneliness. I wrote a bit about it here and other places but the link in that post to Messy Christian’s post is far more insightful. A response to the point was: Social events is, I think, one half of it. The other would be helping them feel part of the rest of the body of the church. Oh I don’t know, adopt a single. Have a family keep in touch with a single. Invite them over for dinner. See what needs they may have (broken car, dead A/C, whatever). Hey! Show you care, what a concept! […]

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  3. BigJolly says….. » Back away from the keyboard, says:
    February 2, 2007 at 9:30 am

    […] swooned over each other in the soft light. After that, we returned home and watched The Notebook again, a tale of 2 lovers at the end of life’s journey. Ah, to be the guy that has the courage to […]

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