A friend is someone you like who likes you back.

I don't think I'd want to be friends with someone who didn't like me or
want to be my friend. I mean, what would be the point in that? I'll
treat people right anyway, but I'm not gonna go outta my way to try to
be all palsy-walsy if they don't want to be.

I don't think we need a who's had the crappiest life contest here, how's
that gonna help anybody feel better?

BB, let yourself feel it, then let it go. Writing does help, even if
it's just journaling to yourself. Sometimes you can be your own best
listener. It's amazing to me some of the stuff that comes out of me onto
paper that I didn't even know was there. And it's a heckuva lot better
than holding it all in where it festers and poisons you.

Hey Alyson, good to see another southern girl here. Howya doin'?

Old chick here.

Welcome Oldhippie. Hi!

Hiya Hank, good to see you made the trip. You'll fit right in here, the
rest of us have. It's a good bunch of people here, they're great for
letting us play in their sandbox.

Hey Bobby, please come back and visit us from time to time and share
your poems with us. I for one will miss you. Have a great life!

We've never talked Sage, but I always like your posts and agree with
you.

Wisdom usually comes with age, but some never get it. You are one of the
ones who has.

We learn from our mistakes if we're smart, and if we're real smart we
listen to others so we don't have to make them all! It took me too many
years to figure that out.

There was a really cute boy in high school whose daddy owned a funeral
home, and he was going into the family business, and I woulda gone out
with him in a heartbeat. So yeah, if they weren't personally creepy I
would.

LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!!!

Sorry, sent me back to grammar school for a minute there!

Pappa, because they were raised on instant everything, instant
gratification of their every wish or whim. Why shouldn't love be like in
the movies, instant romance, scripted to perfection.

Baby girl, the reason love isn't like the movies, is cause life lasts
longer than 2 hours. Which is probably about your attention span for
anything. If or when you grow up, you may find the right one for you,
just remember, you have to be the right one for him too. Be someone
you'd want to love, and you may have better luck finding it.

Good God, you're only 18. How can you possibly know how you'll feel
tomorrow, much less the rest of your life. Geez, wait until you're 50
and have been screwed over by 3 husbands, then you'll have a right not
to believe in love. But guess what, I found it anyway, or rather it
found me.

Don't give up, just be careful who you trust with your heart. Make sure
they're worthy of it, it's the most precious thing you own.

You're right about one thing. I love you is said way too easily by lots
of people, especially boys your age who just wanna get you in the sack.
Don't believe what they say, believe what they do.

Sorry, I sound like your momma now, I'll shut up! Good luck sweetie.

I guess I'm not too observant, or I have more to do than try to figure
out who's talking to themselves, but if that's what they wanna do, it
makes me no never mind. I'm sure not gonna let it run me off from having
a good time here.

Oh, and me and
<<<<<<<<him, are two different people, even if we do have the same pics
up. I've got better things to do than talk to myself and dream up fake
online love affairs. We're for real, believe it or not!

Naproxen (Aleve) works better for me than ibuprofen. Don't have to take
as many pills either, works 8-12 hrs. Just be sure and eat with it, it's
the only thing I've ever taken that I can't take on an empty stomach.

How much time does it take to pick up the phone, or to leave a message
if you miss someone.

And if you say you're gonna call right back, ya dang well better do it.
In order for any relationship to work you need to be a person who is
dependable, and does what they say they're gonna do.

Benefit of a doubt is fine, if it happens once in a while. But if it's
getting to be a pattern, doesn't leave much room for doubt.

<<<<< They can and do.

If it's meant to be, it will be, no matter what the obstacles are. It
just takes two people who really want it to work, like any other
relationship.

I have been on one other than this one, and found the love of my life.
I'm just here to chat with friends, I've met so many good ones online,
and I'm not one to give up my friends just because I've got a man in my
life. You can never have too many friends.

If he cared about you he'd want to talk to you as much as you want to
talk to him. For a LDR to work you've got to have lots of communication.
Heck, for any kind of realtionship to work you've got to have
communication, it just takes a little more work when you're long
distance, and picking up a phone is not a lot of work. Some guys just
don't like talking on the phone that much, but if that's the case, he
needs to find someone closer. You can do better it sounds like to me.
JMO.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the
multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears into calm.
It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be
tears and laughter. -- Kahlil Gibran

Our purpose in life is whatever we make it.

If we live for ourselves only, we die without purpose. Our purpose is to
find God's will for our lives, to serve others. That is what gives us
purpose, and at the same time, makes us happy.

Thx shug, I needed that. Mmmmmm good.

Lee, a poker run is when a bunch of bikers get together, everyone gets a
card, you get another card at each stop, then whoever has the winning
hand at the end wins the pot. It's just a good excuse for a ride,
usually it's a benefit for some cause. Bikers are people too!