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obis -> RE: Those lost chances...lessons hopefully learned (1/20/2007 12:37:24 AM)
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If littlesarbon were a woman, or we were both gay, I would be buying plane tickets :)
I'm in one of those times of my life where I'm looking at lessons learned and being pleased at how much I've changed and grown to become more of the person I want to be. It's unfortunate that wisdom is such a painful process and I can't help but wonder how life would be had I made the right choices the first time in some relationships.
I can say that an opportunity for a second chance has fallen into my lap. We both made many of these mistakes the first time around, and have learned from them in our time apart. I had cursed myself so many times for the errors I made, and bemoaned my fate over the errors she made, and despite the joyful memories I had I often wondered if we would have been happier had we never met when we did. Now that we're trying again, I see how necessary the first time was, and how thankful I am that we made those mistakes together and have a more realistic understanding of our strength and limitations. If we had simply met later and learned from mistakes with others, I don't know that we would appreciate how much we are both capable of improving as people when we have disappointed someone we love.
This is definitely a thread to be saved and read again from time to time. I think it's easy for us to forget how much we have in common, even the mistakes and pains that are so personal are shared by everyone.
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