I believe we meet who we meet for pre-determined reasons, either to teach them a lesson or to learn a lesson (could be either positive or negative) and hopefully grow accordingly.
Even at 25 its hard to imagine any more friends being added to my life and having time for them, but its also true that there is no guarantee my friendships will last
On a separate but similar subject: I was walking through a State Fair last year, with thousands of people, and I thought “how many people here have murdered or raped someone and are walking free?”
Kind of weirded me out!
And one day they’ll tell stories about how you unexpectedly walked into their life and changed everything while you were just out buying cereal or something
A mother of the groom at a wedding I edited recalled (in tears) that when he was a teenager and mourning a breakup, she told him, “The people you love most in this world, you haven’t even met yet.” And she said, “Look at that. Mom was right.” 🙂
I wish I could say I believe that, but I do not. It’s too much of a “what if” fantasy, and a what if will always be more desirable than reality. I don’t doubt there are nice people out there. But “love” is a word I no longer believe in.
I have seen “love”, it’s just another word used to manipulate people into doing what they want.
Through various circumstances and my own inability to maintain relationships when not around people regularly, I have 0 friends other than my boyfriend.
Recently I’ve been thinking what a wedding would look like between us, and it’s depressing. 6 family members and 0 friends on my side.
In the summer of 2023 I felt that I would never find romantic love and it was too late for me. I was (semi) freshly out as gay and all my friends were paired off or at the very least had been already. I felt i was behind and I would never catch up.
A couple months later I met someone who is now my girlfriend, though we wouldn’t start dating for a while.
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This bothers me every time I think about it.
feel free to dm me if you feel like talking to someone 🙂
edit for context: I went through a rough breakup, have not healed, and that’s what I needed to hear as well.
There are also people out there you haven’t met yet who will absolutely hate you for no reason at all
Nah I’m probably done. Unless i have another kid
I doubt that. The people that I have met don’t even love me
There are also people that you will never meet that would love you, but due to twists of fate you will never meet them.
I was literally having an overthinking session and this saved me! Thanks
There’s probably plenty that would love me to piss off
Yeah but the likelihood of meeting them is very low when I’m actively closing myself off. Still, I guess you never know!
Crazy to consider… Soulmates tomorrow, strangers today.
Broke up with my girlfriend a week ago, this made me smile, thanks
I sure hope so, I’m not getting any younger and i need to meet these people(or at least 1) quickly
I believe we meet who we meet for pre-determined reasons, either to teach them a lesson or to learn a lesson (could be either positive or negative) and hopefully grow accordingly.
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It depends on many factors like the context where/when you meet them
Didn’t Michael Bublé write a song about this?
I meet strangers who I love and who love me back every single weekend.
Even at 25 its hard to imagine any more friends being added to my life and having time for them, but its also true that there is no guarantee my friendships will last
Not for me! I blew the only chance I’ll ever get. There is not one woman out there who could possibly love me.
On a separate but similar subject: I was walking through a State Fair last year, with thousands of people, and I thought “how many people here have murdered or raped someone and are walking free?”
Kind of weirded me out!
> There are people out there you haven’t met yet who will love you.
Liar.
And one day they’ll tell stories about how you unexpectedly walked into their life and changed everything while you were just out buying cereal or something
Plenty of fish in the sea just have to find them.
A mother of the groom at a wedding I edited recalled (in tears) that when he was a teenager and mourning a breakup, she told him, “The people you love most in this world, you haven’t even met yet.” And she said, “Look at that. Mom was right.” 🙂
There are people out there you haven’t met yet who want to kill you.
See I can do it too!
You have a lot of faith in my ability to meet new people.
I wish I could say I believe that, but I do not. It’s too much of a “what if” fantasy, and a what if will always be more desirable than reality. I don’t doubt there are nice people out there. But “love” is a word I no longer believe in.
I have seen “love”, it’s just another word used to manipulate people into doing what they want.
I doubt it, but I hope I come back to this comment in ten years blown away lmao ( I won’t)
Well, there are also people out there you haven’t met yet who will hate you deeply or potentially kill you.
I do like this thought a lot. But it would be a lie to say it isn’t as depressing as it is sweet
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I hope so.
Through various circumstances and my own inability to maintain relationships when not around people regularly, I have 0 friends other than my boyfriend.
Recently I’ve been thinking what a wedding would look like between us, and it’s depressing. 6 family members and 0 friends on my side.
I hope you’re right.
To that person out there ready to crush my soul, I’m right here!
Yup, but that’s ok, they will find their partner. It doesn’t have to be me.
Won’t argue with it. But not gonna bother getting my hopes up over it
I doubt that very much. Even if my doubts are proven wrong I don’t deserve the love.
You haven’t met me, dude. You have no idea what nightmare can I be.
I think about that sometimes, but shake it off as I will probably never cross paths with them lol.
And it’s entirely possibly, likely even, that you won’t make the right decisions and you will never meet them.
Yeah idk the rate of this happening so far has been near zero
I saw this in my local bookstore, Powell’s. It was made of those letter balloons. Did you see it there too??
They don’t know me then they can’t love me. Pretty easy actually.
This makes a big assumption that just isn’t true: I’ll somehow meet these people.
Nah, they love you cause they are bankrupt, they have nothing except love.
I sure fucking hope not, I prefer the people who love me now.
Not if I die today! Unless they love my corpse I suppose.
Why when my own parents couldn’t love me properly
There are people you may be friends with who don’t even exist yet!
Ya’ll are some Debby Downers in the comments. Get a grip!
This is incorrect. No one will ever love me (romantically)
In the summer of 2023 I felt that I would never find romantic love and it was too late for me. I was (semi) freshly out as gay and all my friends were paired off or at the very least had been already. I felt i was behind and I would never catch up.
A couple months later I met someone who is now my girlfriend, though we wouldn’t start dating for a while.
It’s crazy how life works
find them. become drawn to them. seek them
Absolutely. The future still holds people who will value and love you for exactly who you are
Lmao that really sucks for them. The poor, doomed fools.
Probably a few that’d kill you that you haven’t met…
Yeah, well they aren’t in the living room or the back yard, so how am I supposed to find them? >:(