• intensely_human@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Take it from a middle aged guy who wants family and has none: the fear of asking her out is nothing next to the horror of being alone.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 hours ago

      You can have both! I asked her a few times, but she moved away and married someone else, so I’m alone for now! Best of both worlds!

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 hours ago

        And for future readers, to learn from this:

        In order to acquire something, learn to let go first.

        • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 hours ago

          But if I’d let go first, I’d never have asked, at all. I think you all need to get your bumper sticker advice straight.

          Edited to say: 1.) I’m not bitter, 2.) I’m totally fine with all this, 3.) I’ve so let go. Like, it’s crazy how hung up I’m not.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 hours ago

      For me, it wasn’t fear of asking her out, it was that I had about 3/100 emotional hitpoints left and our respawn SUUUUCKSSS.

  • Funkytom467@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    19 hours ago

    The rock ain’t floating, it’s falling with some speed sideways.

    And the absurdity of the universe, in wich your biomechanical functions are part of, shouldn’t impact the value we make of us.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 hours ago

      And the sun is falling around a massive blackhole, and that blackhole is speeding trough the universe

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    1 day ago

    “So… uh… we’re all rotting lumps of flesh caught in the gravity well of a floating rock in space. Wanna hang out?”

    Most the people I dated would have thought that was cool, til around the end of college age.

      • Sergio@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        12 hours ago

        My other trick was, at a party, to sit in a big easy chair and slowly fall asleep while looking at someone I liked. it’s a trick I learned from a cat.