Ouch!!
So, as some of you know, I recently went through a sort of nasty experience with the woman I was seeing down here. I have basically had some of my friends tell me I was a sucker. Okay, so I was—I admit it. And maybe I still am. But I had it coming. In fact, I all but asked for it with God. Boy, did I learn some things. Boy, did I change from all of it. And boy, do I still have things to learn. That last one is the sort of scary part of all this.
Yes, I have had many of you tell me I am a nice guy. And I’ve had some of you tell me I’m naïve. Well, the nice guy part is true—I am seeing that I take it to a very unhealthy extreme sometimes. Ouch, it hurts to admit that openly. One of you told me that you are really pissed over what happened to me. I am glad that I have friends like you who stick up for me when I am being too dumb to do it myself. As for the naïve thing—you should not be deceived. There was a day and age when I was naïve. But that doesn’t hold true anymore. I am more clued in oftentimes than I let on. Inside, I knew what I was getting myself into. It was like this whole relationship thing that I’ve just been through—that was merely a façade covering the real battle that was raging behind the scenes. God knows that this latest sad chapter in my life was really an outpouring of my anger and distrust towards Him. I know this is going to sound really stupid, but it was my attempt to get God to notice me, and to get me back with Him where I belong. I knew in the deepest part of me that I was only going to get right with God the hard way. I have been waiting for years for it to happen. I think a part of me just decided that if I had bad medicine coming, I might as well get it over with now so that I’ve got the rest of my life to enjoy and live with Him as opposed to living it at odds with Him. Anyway, I may still have some curveballs coming my way from the fallout of this relationship, but whatever happens, God will give me what I need to deal with things.
Well, that wasn’t what I meant to write in this blog entry. What I intended to write was a list of things I’d rather have happen to me than having to go through the pain of breaking up with someone, even when you know it’s for the best. So, here are a few I can think of:
Things I’d rather go through than a breakup:
1. Bloody my knuckles punching a wall, a tree, a fender. Shoot, if I had good insurance, I might even go so far as to say I’d rather break a knuckle and have to go to the emergency room.
2. I’d rather be the axee than the axer, for sure. It must be that masochistic nice guy in me.
3. Receive several unpleasant voicemail messages that have to do with work. Yuck, I cringe at the thought of this one, but still it’d be preferable.
4. Accidentally cut myself with a knife. At least then I might get a cool scar that I can brag about later.
5. Be unexpectedly hit over the head with a beer bottle. That would be kind of funny. And it would make for a great story later if I remembered it.
6. Be told by my sister that I’m going to owe $1200 in federal and state taxes.
7. Watch a stupid romance movie.
8. Read one of those awful romance novels.
9. Eat a large plate of crawfish and lima beans in one sitting or a bucketful over the course of several days.
10. Keep driving this Chevy Aveo—which is the ugliest, most humiliating car I’ve ever had to drive—for a whole year and pick up dates in it.
11. Burn myself playing with fire. Once again, at least I might get a cool scar and story to tell out of the deal.
12. Touch my tongue to a low-voltage electric fence.
13. Pee on a low voltage electric fence.
14. Have to clean an old side-of-the-road gas station bathroom.
15. Listen to one of my Dad’s lectures or Bible Studies from when I was a kid.
16. Jam my thumb.
17. Get one of those purple things….come on, you know what I’m talking about—those nasty little blood blisters when you pinch your skin really bad.
18. Bite the side of my jaw really hard.
19. Go to 10 of those little socializing parties where you don’t know anyone but the person who invited you and they are busy being host/hostess, so you have to mill around making small talk with strangers and pretend you don’t feel like a big loser for not knowing anybody.
20. Give up hard liquor for a year.
21. Give up beer for 8 months.
22. Give up chili for 6 months.
23. Give up hot sauce and finely shredded cheese for 4 months. Behold the power of cheese!
24. Give up food entirely for…….a week. And if there were bonus prizes for going longer I’d probably give it a shot.
25. Give blood.
26. Get a shot.
27. Watch someone else getting a body part pierced. If I passed out would it still count?
28. Make myself work through this stupid Yoga book I bought a couple months ago to help me deal with my anger and high-strung personality.
29. Journal or blog everyday for a year.
30. Eat food off the floor—okay, I tried to sneak one by that I’d do anyway.
Okay, now here are a few things that I’d rather not do instead of go through a breakup:
1. Live away from Cincinnati for another year.
2. Go through my teenage years again, not knowing what I know now.
3. Never be in a relationship again.
4. Give up flying.
5. Get a body part pierced.
6. Work at this job for another 6 months.
7. Smash my toe really bad.
8. Eat a bucket of worms or cockroaches.
9. Work at a phone call center job.
10. Hurt someone else even worse because I didn’t have the guts to breakup.
11. Never get to go camping or backpacking again.
12. Never get to read about World War II again.
13. Have my eyebrows plucked clean……eeew, that just really really grosses me out!
Well now, I don’t know what these two lists say about me, but there they are. A sort of personal ranking system to see just where breaking up lies on my list of unpleasant experiences in life. Well, all except for the eating food off the floor. That one is actually good for you because you gain extra protein and minerals from it having been on the floor.
Yes, I have had many of you tell me I am a nice guy. And I’ve had some of you tell me I’m naïve. Well, the nice guy part is true—I am seeing that I take it to a very unhealthy extreme sometimes. Ouch, it hurts to admit that openly. One of you told me that you are really pissed over what happened to me. I am glad that I have friends like you who stick up for me when I am being too dumb to do it myself. As for the naïve thing—you should not be deceived. There was a day and age when I was naïve. But that doesn’t hold true anymore. I am more clued in oftentimes than I let on. Inside, I knew what I was getting myself into. It was like this whole relationship thing that I’ve just been through—that was merely a façade covering the real battle that was raging behind the scenes. God knows that this latest sad chapter in my life was really an outpouring of my anger and distrust towards Him. I know this is going to sound really stupid, but it was my attempt to get God to notice me, and to get me back with Him where I belong. I knew in the deepest part of me that I was only going to get right with God the hard way. I have been waiting for years for it to happen. I think a part of me just decided that if I had bad medicine coming, I might as well get it over with now so that I’ve got the rest of my life to enjoy and live with Him as opposed to living it at odds with Him. Anyway, I may still have some curveballs coming my way from the fallout of this relationship, but whatever happens, God will give me what I need to deal with things.
Well, that wasn’t what I meant to write in this blog entry. What I intended to write was a list of things I’d rather have happen to me than having to go through the pain of breaking up with someone, even when you know it’s for the best. So, here are a few I can think of:
Things I’d rather go through than a breakup:
1. Bloody my knuckles punching a wall, a tree, a fender. Shoot, if I had good insurance, I might even go so far as to say I’d rather break a knuckle and have to go to the emergency room.
2. I’d rather be the axee than the axer, for sure. It must be that masochistic nice guy in me.
3. Receive several unpleasant voicemail messages that have to do with work. Yuck, I cringe at the thought of this one, but still it’d be preferable.
4. Accidentally cut myself with a knife. At least then I might get a cool scar that I can brag about later.
5. Be unexpectedly hit over the head with a beer bottle. That would be kind of funny. And it would make for a great story later if I remembered it.
6. Be told by my sister that I’m going to owe $1200 in federal and state taxes.
7. Watch a stupid romance movie.
8. Read one of those awful romance novels.
9. Eat a large plate of crawfish and lima beans in one sitting or a bucketful over the course of several days.
10. Keep driving this Chevy Aveo—which is the ugliest, most humiliating car I’ve ever had to drive—for a whole year and pick up dates in it.
11. Burn myself playing with fire. Once again, at least I might get a cool scar and story to tell out of the deal.
12. Touch my tongue to a low-voltage electric fence.
13. Pee on a low voltage electric fence.
14. Have to clean an old side-of-the-road gas station bathroom.
15. Listen to one of my Dad’s lectures or Bible Studies from when I was a kid.
16. Jam my thumb.
17. Get one of those purple things….come on, you know what I’m talking about—those nasty little blood blisters when you pinch your skin really bad.
18. Bite the side of my jaw really hard.
19. Go to 10 of those little socializing parties where you don’t know anyone but the person who invited you and they are busy being host/hostess, so you have to mill around making small talk with strangers and pretend you don’t feel like a big loser for not knowing anybody.
20. Give up hard liquor for a year.
21. Give up beer for 8 months.
22. Give up chili for 6 months.
23. Give up hot sauce and finely shredded cheese for 4 months. Behold the power of cheese!
24. Give up food entirely for…….a week. And if there were bonus prizes for going longer I’d probably give it a shot.
25. Give blood.
26. Get a shot.
27. Watch someone else getting a body part pierced. If I passed out would it still count?
28. Make myself work through this stupid Yoga book I bought a couple months ago to help me deal with my anger and high-strung personality.
29. Journal or blog everyday for a year.
30. Eat food off the floor—okay, I tried to sneak one by that I’d do anyway.
Okay, now here are a few things that I’d rather not do instead of go through a breakup:
1. Live away from Cincinnati for another year.
2. Go through my teenage years again, not knowing what I know now.
3. Never be in a relationship again.
4. Give up flying.
5. Get a body part pierced.
6. Work at this job for another 6 months.
7. Smash my toe really bad.
8. Eat a bucket of worms or cockroaches.
9. Work at a phone call center job.
10. Hurt someone else even worse because I didn’t have the guts to breakup.
11. Never get to go camping or backpacking again.
12. Never get to read about World War II again.
13. Have my eyebrows plucked clean……eeew, that just really really grosses me out!
Well now, I don’t know what these two lists say about me, but there they are. A sort of personal ranking system to see just where breaking up lies on my list of unpleasant experiences in life. Well, all except for the eating food off the floor. That one is actually good for you because you gain extra protein and minerals from it having been on the floor.
posted by wwiiguy at 3:39 PM
18 Comments:
Hey Guy, it's good to see that you're somewhat back to normal! I was getting worried about you reading those last few posts. What happened anyway? Or would you rather not talk about it? Like I said, feel free anytime you need to talk. That's what friends are for :)
Hey #1 Fan,
Thanks for being such a loyal buddy, even though we've never actually met. I don't know why God has blessed me with such wonderful friends when I do such a poor job of even keeping in touch, let alone being a good friend to you all.
As for what happened....hmmm, if you really want to know write me or IM me sometime and maybe I'll have the guts to share if I'm in the right mood.
How's life for you? Did you start your own blog yet? Let me know if/when you do so I can read it.
Ah, I see things are back to normal again. It's even nice to hear from you Non-Fan :) Misspellings, incorrect assumptions and all. I'll let you look up the word "assumptions" yourself ;)
I KNOW WHAT THAT WORD MEANS ALREADY LOSERGUY!!! I'M NOT THE IDITO YOU ARE LOOSERIIIGUY!!!
AND I'M LAUGHING RIGHT NOW THAT YOU GOT DUMPED!!!
Okay, so I know it says not to answer a fool in his folly, but I've been quite the fool lately anyway, so I'll respond just a little to Mr. Non-Fan.
Just for the record and the statbooks, in this case I was the dumper and not the dumpee. Wish it would've been the other way around, but 'twas not to be. And Mr. Non-Fan, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but if you haven't married yet, I've already got you beat. I married in '96. So I'm one up on you. And I'm also one up on you in the divorce stat column as well. Divorced in '99. Hope you're not too saddened by this news.
If you're clever I'm sure you can use it somehow to make fun of me some more and brighten your day!
Shan,
You need help with this multiple personality thing. You know this was a hard thing to go through and learn about yourself. You'll be fine and pull through all of this. Oh and i'm working on my 27 list for my blog so it should be on soon.
Oh, you're asking for it Lori. Go ahead, this will be fun to see what you come up with....
Hmm. You know, a year ago a friend of mine gave me really good advice about breaking up and with my recent unfortunate break-up debacle, I was able to prove him right. He said that if you can get past the first three days, it gets better and better each day. That is so true! Round 'bout that third day, my anger dies down, I stop cursing and crying and sobbing like a lost puppy. And then, within days, there's forgiveness and the soul is cleansed. mmm. Feels good in here now.
Oh, and I agree with searching. The dual personality thing is a little...well, unusual. While I allow for a lot of personal wiggle room when it comes to eccentricity, and often talk to myself (well, talk things through out loud), your back and forth dialogues lean a little left of eccentric. More like dead-on strange. But hey, that's ok. Be you. And flush the haters.
Nice to hear from you Bunny. I think that 3 day rule is great advice. I have found it to be true in my own life as well.
As for the talking to myself, I don't know what you're talking about, but I will consider the eccentricity/strange comment a compliment......and I will too!......Not me! I think she's full of ****!!! Maybe Miss BunnyJo is the one with multiple personalities. After all no one single person could know all the words that she uses in her vocabulary. Has to be the work of two or three separate authors combining their collective vocabularies......Now hold on there, I disagree with you and besides, lets not begin making personal attacks on our devoted readers.......Whatever, speak for yourself. If she wants to say you have multiple personalities, that's fine but keep me out of it!!........I'm sorry Bunny, you'll have to excuse his sour behavior :)
I love you! It's great, funny stuff. Keep it up. Makes reading your blog v. v. interesting. And...yes, I have multiple personalities. Just ask anyone who has inadvertently awakened me in the middle of a deep sleep. As for the vocab...blame my mom.
One thought re your blog. You write A LOT. You might like shorter posts. Yeah, like shorter and more frequent? I check here 'most every day and have to wait ETERNITIES while you polish these dissertations. In some cases, dah-ling, shorter IS better. :)
Okay, so I start training at a new job tomorrow. No more company laptop or cell phone. So, I'll be off the radar for a couple weeks. Hope to write again soon. Miss me!
I'LL MISS YOU LIKE WHEN I CUT MY HEAD OFF YOU IDITO WWIILOSER GUY!!!
Ahh, such a warm-hearted following I have here :)
wow, it sure would be nice if some people would update their blogs once in awhile!!!!!
We all have to go through some pretty hard things in life. Eaither we can let it break us, or it can make us stronger. Oh! by the way your not naive by a long shot. You know what's right from wrong, as we all do. But I do believe you might be alittle looney.
I have been training for a new job and now do not have a computer or a cell phone. That's why you have seen no recent updates to my blog :)
Hello to Always-Seeking....why don't you tell everyone about yourself? Do I know you??? :)
I don't know!! Do you know me? I'm sure nobody wants to be bored, while trying to read about little ol' me:) All you need to know is, I know who you are. Let's just say that you know about me well enough.
Oh, by the way. This is to the non-fan. Don't keep talking like that to wwiiguy. I know who you are, Don't make me come over there.
Why don't you up date your blog site?
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