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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (43579)	7/4/1999 1:54:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

It's so humiliating to be rejected especially by an ordinary looking girl, that desperate responses sometimes seem reasonable. The mere possibility of rejection scares boys -- although rational beliefs prove it's inevitable and good. Suppose a boy were so desirable that any girl he asked for a date fell immediately in love with him? I solved the problem by never asking the two most attractive girls for a date -- and discovered at graduation parties that they had been more than a little hurt that I hadn't asked them out. I specialized in asking disfigured girls with really defective personalities and bad reputations for dates. They nearly always turned me down too, but that usually let me say, "whew! that was close!" My "best girl" in high school (I had to put her on display as the sponsor of the cadet regiment I commanded) was taller than I, had an acne-ravaged face, skinny as a rail -- no breasts at all as well as I could see. She was painfully shy -- didn't want to walk out and take the review because she was afraid that people would laugh at her (and me). She was pitiful but very nice to me. I hated myself for being ashamed of her. But I would have been more ashamed if I had not asked her, or if she had turned me down.