On Apr 26, 10:04=A0am, bob <thana...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I did well this past week. I didn't back away when someone cried in my
> office. Instead, I did what I could to help make things right. I
> calmed my self and ...
>
> ****, I was tempted to use the situation to my advantage. I didn't, of
> course, but can easily admit that I'm not pure.
>
> None of us are, I suppose. Perhaps the sum total of our lives as a net
> positive to society is our resistance to what is probably our basic
> nature: take what you can get when you can get it.
Something about this reminds me of how I feel when I deal with my ex
these days. He's starting a new relation****p and I'm his only real
female friend, so we talk about it. About them, about her, about what
he should do and not do. I've been very encouraging, which is fairly
bizarre, I suppose. I truly do believe that having a new woman in his
life will be a good thing for him, but ... my motives aren't pure.
It's convenient for me for him to move on. By encouraging this
behavior I serve my own ends as much as his. It can be uncomfortably
easy to steer people in a given direction.
> It's nice here. Lots of birds, lots of flowers, lots of ...
It's hot here. (was over 90 in my yard yesterday, over 80 in the
house), but I don't really mind. It makes me languid and fanciful
and ... It's probably just as well I'm back in the safety of air
conditioning.
M
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