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amayos -> RE: Frustration (3/20/2007 3:49:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: boundkitty
What do you do to deal with the frustration when you are looking to find someone and it's just not happening? I keep telling myself that I will find someone and just be patient, but it gets really hard to keep my spirits up sometimes.
Your frustration is understandable, but it needn't be unending. Persistence and a clear understanding of what you seek will yield something someday. It may not be on your time table, however.
In my youth, I desired to submit, yet no matter where I turned, my search was met with disappointment and even derision. It is ironic now that sixteen years later I have crossed paths with a woman I would have killed for in my early twenties. It is strange how the diamond tilts sometimes, isn't it?
As infinite as the possibilities of the world stretch, it seems we arrive upon seasons that free or crystallize our paths, no matter how much we may try to enforce our will upon minds and events prior. I do not believe in fate so much as the virtue of one trusting in patience, of learning to see with the right spirit in one's heart, and knowing when the time has come to act. Things comes when they come.
Sugartime, by Susan Carol Hauser, is a wonderful book about sugaring, the time-honored process of collecting maple syrup, but its subtext speaks so well of the worthiness and pleasure found in patience. It's an interesting read, and can give one new philosophical perspectives about time as it relates to human happiness.
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