Yeah, hopefully we all learn something from each other. Maybe sometimes the things we learn aren't what we are prepared to accept, like being patient.
Quote: But it requires on your part Wes, perspective, soul-searching, time, goals (realistic), a life outside of your own head and the dreaded PATIENCE.
I'm already struggling with most of this, especially perspective, time, and patience. Despite admonishing myself to "drop the rope", I was inches away from calling to ask her to lunch. So you can see that I have a very long ways to go. I was sucked back in-hook, line, and sinker-by all the recent interaction with her. To put it in perspective, I have called maybe two or three times from work in the last 4 months and haven't asked her to lunch (just the two of us) since the first month or two after the bomb. Wow, how far I've fallen. Keep reminding me that I'm working on myself right now and I'm giving her time and space to work through her issues. It's so much easier to look at the bigger picture, rather than just the dots of color, when it's not your own situation you're looking at.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
