[1016] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Above All
amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 21 22:23:43 1990
Au contraire, my dear chap, I'd *love* to have a girlfriend. It was
a very pleasant and rewarding thing (for both of us, I believe). But,
as we've said here many times before, it ain't as simple as headin'
over to the five-and-dime and picking out the one you want. (At least
is it is, no one's ever told *me* about it. :-)
> I'm not going to start listing all the things you've done ... that reduce
> to rubble any claims of yours that you are "afraid of the consequences of
> every decision that [you] make."
The fact that I've *done* them doesn't mean that I did them lightly or
without trepidation, or that I necessarily made the right choices. It's
not my usual depression of ``I've never done anything;'' it's a more
accurate ``I'm so caught up in my fears that I don't do some things that
maybe I should'' --- and that maybe it's interfering too much with my
life.
