The One Eternal, Sleepless Fantasy of this Daydreamer's Wild Imagination

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[FONT=q_serif]I have a super wild imagination and exploring my own inner world of whimsical make-believe is certainly one of my favorite pastimes and is what furnishes the fuel for my creative writing of outlandish fiction. But if I’m talking about what I fantasize about as in my own imaginary picture of something I deeply desire from the bottom of my heart that feels so inexorably out of reach, it’s actually quite simple and unoriginal. Truth be told, it’s really the only thing I fantasize about in that sense and it’s essentially the same kind of fantasy that has inebriated my thoughts in many a daydream since my first serious crush Jody Porter in the third grade. Just that old-fashioned, sappy romantic form of fancy involving true love between me and that special gal who gives me butterflies, whose eyes make me swoon spellbound and whose smile makes me feel all giddy, whose very presence transforms the atmosphere surrounding her, whose unique beauty has a power over me, the power that just melts the heart and ignites its richest desires with fiery fervor.[/FONT]
[FONT=q_serif]I fantasize about the thought of being loved by some imaginary, highly improbable special woman. She’s a very rare type of special someone, someone who would stand out to me right away with a magnetic power of this unique attraction that is impossible for me to resist. An exceptional kind of attraction that galvanizes my feelings and pierces my instrinsic soft spot on a level that very few can ever do. The kind of attraction that sparks the butterflies, induces fear and trembling, excitement, wonder, and boyish twitterpation all at once. She is cute, quirky, nerdy, sweet and always brunette. She’s that one whom I wish upon every shooting star is somewhere out there, somewhere fixed into the path of my destiny— but she doesn’t really exist. The fantastical scenario of her loving me, holding my hand, kissing me, or sharing a sunset with me on the beach sends my astral soul soaring with the angels. For a moment the whole universe feels perfected in magical rapture. To bask in the electric radiance of her eyes staring back at me is a taste of heaven, something otherworldly, sublime, and beautiful beyond the artistry of the most poetic language.[/FONT]
[FONT=q_serif]Yes I know, it’s all silly nonsense that should have gone out with the third grade, or at least high school. But it didn’t. I’ve never had any firsthand encounter with “true mutual love” in all its glorious ecstasy and hellish heartache (only unrequited love with all its hellish heartache) and thus I’ve never had the opportunity to be disillusioned of this boyish, maudlin fantasy. It hasn’t gone away yet and I doubt it ever will. I don’t expect any part of it to materialize in the sublunary sphere of real life. I don’t expect anything like true love or marriage between now and my dying day. Tis the stuff of pure idle fantasy and nothing more. The fantasy of a third grader boy, the fantasy of a thirty-three year old man, the fantasy of a childish, starry-eyed hopeless romantic with an overactive imagination and a regrettably tender heart who still hasn’t learned how to stop daydreaming.[/FONT]
 

Lynx

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That's why so many people reject so many people, because they don't meet expectations and... well... we are all afraid of this happening:

 
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That's why so many people reject so many people, because they don't meet expectations and... well... we are all afraid of this happening:

Expectations, schmexpectations! :p LOL

That's why you marry your best friend. :) Once you've become so rooted together, have given your hearts time to not only love but LIKE each other, get excited about simple activities together, become so accustomed to each others unique facets, and are blessed to find someone you can trust and who always has your back, not even a choir of angels will break that bond.

"There is no greater love than someone who would surrender their life for a friend."

Marry a friend. :)
 
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thanx Auntie. I agree that the person you choose to marry, to be your lifelong partner, should be your best friend. Someone whose company provides comfort, joy, warmth, fun, with whom you can have endless amounts of wonderful conversations, explore each other's interests, support and encourage each other, go on adventures together and share in the journey of life side by side, united in an abiding, unconditional love. I have few people in my life at all, very few friends left. Many old friends got married and went their own separate ways. If this special lady exists for me, she is a total mystery. I've never met her and have no idea how a future meeting would take place. One thing I'm sure of that any possibility for such a meeting is nowhere in the near future. I am in no position to meet anyone or offer anyone anything. I lift up this fervent desire of my heart to the Lord almost every day. I pray there is such a miracle somewhere in my horizon. :)
 

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One thing I'm sure of that any possibility for such a meeting is nowhere in the near future. I am in no position to meet anyone or offer anyone anything. I lift up this fervent desire of my heart to the Lord almost every day. I pray there is such a miracle somewhere in my horizon. :)
So what are you doing to change your position and what you can offer (or just become more aware of what's already there, that you're currently blind to)? And is there anything we can do to support you in making the changes that God might be calling you to make?
 
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That type of love only exists in two places.... fairy tales and... romance novels... :rolleyes:

 

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That type of love only exists in two places.... fairy tales and... romance novels... :rolleyes:

Looks like we have to add a third category to the list.

"That kind of love only exists..."

1. in fairy tales.

2. in romance novels.

3. at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Nothing says "true love" like a huge greasy bucket of the Colonel's Secret Recipe. :rolleyes: (However... take me to McDonald's instead... and watch the romance take flight!)
 
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You're forgetting one other place it exists-- in my own dreams. I know it's a silly fantasy. But the idealized version of mutual love has been as equally non-existent in my life as has any mundane version of mutual love. It's all made out of the stuff of dreams for me. In the absence of any experience that offers me any personal frame of reference to love, I am still under the spell of an unbridled dream, perceiving love in this unrealistic, insubstantial and purely fantastical projection that has not been sobered by reality. Only an up close and personal encounter with true love could transform my understanding and mature my point of view. The whole thing seems like a totally unattainable desire for me. True love, marriage, kids. All of it. Forget about Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, I don't expect any form of it to materialize.

Here are my words once again in larger size:

[FONT=q_serif]Yes I know, it’s all silly nonsense that should have gone out with the third grade, or at least high school. But it didn’t. I’ve never had any firsthand encounter with “true mutual love” in all its glorious ecstasy and hellish heartache (only unrequited love with all its hellish heartache) and thus I’ve never had the opportunity to be disillusioned of this boyish, maudlin fantasy. It hasn’t gone away yet and I doubt it ever will. I don’t expect any part of it to materialize in the sublunary sphere of real life. I don’t expect anything like true love or marriage between now and my dying day. Tis the stuff of pure idle fantasy and nothing more. The fantasy of a third grader boy, the fantasy of a thirty-three year old man, the fantasy of a childish, starry-eyed hopeless romantic with an overactive imagination and a regrettably tender heart who still hasn’t learned how to stop daydreaming.[/FONT]
 
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Looks like we have to add a third category to the list.

"That kind of love only exists..."

1. in fairy tales.

2. in romance novels.

3. at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Nothing says "true love" like a huge greasy bucket of the Colonel's Secret Recipe. :rolleyes: (However... take me to McDonald's instead... and watch the romance take flight!)
I always had a feeling Ronald was a ladies' man... :rolleyes:



(yes, that is Brooke Shields! :rolleyes:)
 

Didymous

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You're forgetting one other place it exists-- in my own dreams. I know it's a silly fantasy. But the idealized version of mutual love has been as equally non-existent in my life as has any mundane version of mutual love. It's all made out of the stuff of dreams for me. In the absence of any experience that offers me any personal frame of reference to love, I am still under the spell of an unbridled dream, perceiving love in this unrealistic, insubstantial and purely fantastical projection that has not been sobered by reality. Only an up close and personal encounter with true love could transform my understanding and mature my point of view. The whole thing seems like a totally unattainable desire for me. True love, marriage, kids. All of it. Forget about Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, I don't expect any form of it to materialize.

Here are my words once again in larger size:

[FONT=q_serif]Yes I know, it’s all silly nonsense that should have gone out with the third grade, or at least high school. But it didn’t. I’ve never had any firsthand encounter with “true mutual love” in all its glorious ecstasy and hellish heartache (only unrequited love with all its hellish heartache) and thus I’ve never had the opportunity to be disillusioned of this boyish, maudlin fantasy. It hasn’t gone away yet and I doubt it ever will. I don’t expect any part of it to materialize in the sublunary sphere of real life. I don’t expect anything like true love or marriage between now and my dying day. Tis the stuff of pure idle fantasy and nothing more. The fantasy of a third grader boy, the fantasy of a thirty-three year old man, the fantasy of a childish, starry-eyed hopeless romantic with an overactive imagination and a regrettably tender heart who still hasn’t learned how to stop daydreaming.[/FONT]
I don't think it's silly. Before I was a Christian, I met three women who were that for me, and I was that for them. They all died shortly after I met them, and I spent years mourning the loss of not one, but three such loves.
 
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You're forgetting one other place it exists-- in my own dreams. I know it's a silly fantasy. But the idealized version of mutual love has been as equally non-existent in my life as has any mundane version of mutual love. It's all made out of the stuff of dreams for me. In the absence of any experience that offers me any personal frame of reference to love, I am still under the spell of an unbridled dream, perceiving love in this unrealistic, insubstantial and purely fantastical projection that has not been sobered by reality. Only an up close and personal encounter with true love could transform my understanding and mature my point of view. The whole thing seems like a totally unattainable desire for me. True love, marriage, kids. All of it. Forget about Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, I don't expect any form of it to materialize.

Here are my words once again in larger size:

[FONT=q_serif]Yes I know, it’s all silly nonsense that should have gone out with the third grade, or at least high school. But it didn’t. I’ve never had any firsthand encounter with “true mutual love” in all its glorious ecstasy and hellish heartache (only unrequited love with all its hellish heartache) and thus I’ve never had the opportunity to be disillusioned of this boyish, maudlin fantasy. It hasn’t gone away yet and I doubt it ever will. I don’t expect any part of it to materialize in the sublunary sphere of real life. I don’t expect anything like true love or marriage between now and my dying day. Tis the stuff of pure idle fantasy and nothing more. The fantasy of a third grader boy, the fantasy of a thirty-three year old man, the fantasy of a childish, starry-eyed hopeless romantic with an overactive imagination and a regrettably tender heart who still hasn’t learned how to stop daydreaming.[/FONT]
Yes, also in the imagination.... (although it is like a fairy tale playing in one's mind)
 
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yes. that's the only place where the concept of mutual romantic love exists for me. in the world of ideas, in the land of make-believe.
 
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I'm very sorry to hear that Didymous. That's absolutely shattering. I can't even imagine the pain you have endured. No words can console you that I could say. I'm sorry.

I guess there's always that question of whether it's better to have love someone and lost them than to never have loved at all. I've only felt the bitter side of love, that is unrequited love. I've never met anyone who was my true love, in any sense of that. I was only in two relationships that were totally unfulfilling, which I got into for the wrong reasons, selling myself short, settling, allowing myself to get caught up in something that was destined to fail. I am ashamed of myself and deeply regret my poor choices. I learned through much pain that it is never worth it to settle, to get into a relationship for anything less than real love. I will never do that again.
 

Didymous

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I'm very sorry to hear that Didymous. That's absolutely shattering. I can't even imagine the pain you have endured. No words can console you that I could say. I'm sorry.

I guess there's always that question of whether it's better to have love someone and lost them than to never have loved at all. I've only felt the bitter side of love, that is unrequited love. I've never met anyone who was my true love, in any sense of that. I was only in two relationships that were totally unfulfilling, which I got into for the wrong reasons, selling myself short, settling, allowing myself to get caught up in something that was destined to fail. I am ashamed of myself and deeply regret my poor choices. I learned through much pain that it is never worth it to settle, to get into a relationship for anything less than real love. I will never do that again.
I thank you for your compassion sir. I was so angry at God for so many years, and I actually began believing in Him because of those losses. While I may never understand why that played out as it did, God has at least given me peace about it. Praise Him in all things, for He causes all things to work together for good for them who love Him and are the called according to His purpose.
 

Didymous

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I hope you find it, and never lose it.
 
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Thank you. And i understand why you would feel angry at God. that's just horrible beyond words. i have felt a lot of anger toward God because of my loneliness and depression, feeling my life waste away... but I cant run away from God. I need Christ more than ever. Im at a desperate point. I need direction. I want God to take over my life and just carry me wherever He wants me to go. I need out of this lifeless ditch where I've been rotting over the past year-- with the past 7 or 8 years being incredibly painful and lonely. I would like to think love is a possibility somewhere in my future. If it is, it's definitely not soon. I have nothing tangible to offer and would be written off immediately by any good sensible woman.
 

Didymous

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Good, sensible women wouldn't have most of us, but my experience is that they choose to anyway, I guess because God made them for us, and us for them.