Is there a person from any time in your past who you think of as the one that got away? The love or potential love that got interrupted by life circumstances like the draft, college, marriage, career relocation, etc? What would you do if that person re-entered your life at this point? Would you risk reconnecting? I often think of one who fits this description, wondering if they remember me, whether the same sparks might be ignited again -- and if so, what the heck would I do?! What about you?
I have wondered what happened to a couple of guys I "used to know." Just idle curiosity on my part; I'm happily married to the Best Man on Earth so I have no interest in "connecting" with anyone else.
@D'Ellyn Dottir Yes, there was one, and only one. Pretty little high school girl still a freshman, whom I drove to school in the mornings. I was a Senior; she excelled in school despite an abusive alcoholic father recently kicked out by her mother. Only child. I knew I loved that girl, intensely. Frank
Ha, several. At age 71 (in two weeks) I sometimes think back of a few special GFs I had. Some very nice women, but we had different goals at the time so it didn't work. But what's done is done.
That's too bad, @Bruce Andrew. I think about the road not taken myself from the time when different goals seemed important.
I bet she sensed that on some level, @Frank Sanoica . Who knows? Maybe she has good memories of the nice boy who gave her a ride and treated her kindly.
Hey no kidding? My birfday (sic) is the 21st. A few years ago there was an almost total solar eclipse here on my BD. I was sitting on my porch, and boy was it weird.
Elusive Girls Girls in my life are the girls in my dreams Too shy to meet no self-esteem Wanted so bad To this day I'm sad Could I talk to one Maybe have some fun Crossing there path and smile Would they notice and think I'm worthwhile Oh no that's against the rule You're not allowed you fool I'm too intimidated anyway But maybe someday All the silent crushes fade with the years What could have been if I controlled my fears Tony Page 8/6/21
ONE my cousin Sandi. We were a complete team and were always together from early childhood until my early 20s'. Mother was concerned we would marry. I joined the Army she turned to drugs and that killed her, growing up we were always together even workwise we had to be hired as a team always; her father was the manager of my uncle's cotton gin, finally with our parents ok we ran the night shift at the gin, on days off in bailing season we hauled hay but always worked we were almost exactly the same age and at 18 paid cash for 2 4x4 pickups at the same time same day, losing her to drugs is the main reason I am so anti-drug here, I still visit her gravesite almost weekly! I did this week also on Tuesday. Yes, mother I would have married her! We were known as the blond kids on horses around here as we rode almost daily. For almost 15 years we saw each other almost daily. I have missed her very much and still do so. We rode, fished, hunted, shot and worked all the time, under my uncle's care and parent's approval we got the ok to go a 9-day horseback trip in the mountains one year. Not much we did not do thinking back on it.