Tiff and Cam Present the return of The official B*tches of Eastwick Thread — Page 256

DUH!!! of course I am!! Was there any doubt..

Here is an excerpt from a journal entry I made a year and a half ago.. It might do you good to read it..

I'm tired of waiting for another day to pass to do all those things I want and need to do. Silence and inexpression are the chains that bind us all to our misery. Well I'm used to misery and it's often all too comfortable in the fact that I know how to deal with it. Happiness however is something we all strive for and want, but most of us are too afraid to reach out and grasp it. We're too busy caught up in the what if's of life.. Well what if something better comes along, what if this isn't my destiny! Well guess what... What if I've missed my chance? Maybe if I take my head out of the clouds for 5 seconds, I just might realize what is right in front of me.. an infinant potential for happiness.

I'm tired of standing on this empty shore waiting for my ship to come in damn it! Maybe the ship with never come in.. But I'm not gonna wait for it anymore, I'm going put my back to the shore and head out to sea. I'll swim to my ship if I have to, or die trying. Atleast then I can't sit back and say well if only I had done this or that. But maybe that's the point.. we all stand around staring into the horizon waiting for our ship thinking it's going to come right up to the shore and pick us up. Well did we ever stop to think that maybe the water is just a little ( or a lot) too shallow near the shore where we continue to stand always waiting? Maybe we are supposed to swim out and meet it. I'm learning that nothing worth having has ever come easily.

I look at a child so innocent and pure with their eyes full of wonder. But if you look carefully you wont see fear or I can't in their eyes. All you will see is I can! You try telling a 3 year old that she can't be a princess or he can't be a super hero, by golly they can! And it's sad how cruel the world can be, beating that hope and wonder and innocence out. It's not any of us that first said I can't, it's the world around us telling us we can't, that we should be afraid. That we should resolve to live with what we are given and that it's all we deserve. Well you know what? We are all better than that, and we CAN do anything, if only we put away the fear long enough to try.

I'm going to take the chances now instead of waiting until the time is right. The right time is now, cuz I may never get another chance. And starting right now I'm not going to be afraid of what I don't know. Sure sometimes waiting is appropriate, and patience is a virtue but there comes a point when you shouldn't be passive any longer, and for me that time is now. I'm standing with my feet in the ocean ready to swim, and on the edge of a cliff ready to fly! Fear is useless and I am done with it. Today I resolve to be vocal, to be open, and to be honest!

If you love someone, tell them! You never know if you will have the chance again.. And even if they don't love you back the way you hope, know that telling them you love them will probably have touched them. It will atleast make them feel good.

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