Cliche ridden pep talks. What Valentines Day means to us single ladies. Denial. Friendship.

It’s February, and that’s why we here at the Nearby Future.com are advocating the most important skill to master for the future!

Communication.

So, sit in a circle and let’s share something heartbreaking, hilarious, or honest.

I’ll start.

So I’m the kind of person who is known for jumping to conclusions. I see something, I link it to something else, and I assume. This can be dangerous, and this time around it was. I thought there was a something, a possible romantic relationship, when apparently there was nothing. And now I’m trying to cope.

Technically, logically, I should be crushed. But really, I’m functioning, I’m communicating well, I’m not bitter and not overly-honest. Either I take a six months precipitated rejection really well or I’m just not grasping the logical facts here.

It’s denial. Some part of me wishes it wasn’t. The other just wants to continue on with this blissful ignorance. If there’s ever a time to rebel against reality, it’d probably be now.

But if you’re in denial, then you can’t move on. You’re just stuck in a moment in time with that one feeling of hope and happiness. So closure? Sure, that might work. Maybe. Sometimes.

But it was so perfect: the definition of perfect being better than the last time, and the time before that, and the instance before that.

Excuses won’t help, neither will failed justifications. But they’ll do, at least for now.

Because denial is a phase to be lingered on, and to be savored. Just for a little while, until it passes and then the worst hits.

So, I shared. Why don’t you?

Recently I heard a song by Brad Prasily called “I am Still Guy” he talks about I will do this and that but remember I am still a guy. He has a point. Girls we cannot make men women. Ditto to guys. Abandon the quest. Live with the way we are. Appreciate each other’s differences and love each other’s similarities.

            Men may never truly understand women IT’S OKAY. We are different. It is a simple concept no a truth. Girls, Guys stop tossing the blame. It takes two to pick fight, realize you both have faults. Lets’ make easier on everyone and change little things to help each other.

Girls back off give the guys some breathing room, They need some time to switch gears. Give them credit they try.

Guys half the time girls don’t know what they feel or want. We appreciate the effort to try to understand our feelings, just understand we do not understand. It is a work in progress.

It is all a work in progress. We were getting there. Lets’ all communicate and get to happily after together. It may take everything we have but seems like its worth it.

Random BWT: Why do we say it is the greatest thing since sliced bread? I pretty sure most of the world takes sliced bread for granted…. Wonder how that quote started….

P.S here is a link to the lyrics to Brad’s song http://www.metrolyrics.com/im-still-a-guy-lyrics-brad-paisley.html

P.S.S. This is Jala theologies, I don’t mean to create stereotypes and what it says above might not be true about all guys and girls.

First being theoretically tarsier-ed is not as fun as it sounds. Whatever happened to “you will catch more flies with honey than vinegar,” Rika?  

Rika if glitter is sign of weakness ( see Conair post) then is the nearbyfuture weak, for we now have” theoretical glitter” at the top of our page. 

Okay sorry, I just could resist pointing that out Rika! We need to stop using the word theoretical. 

Now for the real stuff…. Frozen yogurt beats ice cream every time. It healthier, looks better, and tastes better than ice cream plus it is in Chuck! Even Sarah loves frozen yogurt. In fact, I predict that because of current trends frozen yogurt shops will become about as popular as Starbucks except in the frozen delicious, snack, lunch, and otherwise amazing foods industry. 

Now for the real article. WAIT look! I just took half a post commenting other poeples’ posts . WOW, that takes skill, ha-ha not really. Now that I think about it, a lot of our society is just comments on other peoples work. I do not want to rain on anyone’s parade but I do not think that there has been an original idea in an at least 200 years. We just build off other people’s ideas. Almost everything in today’s society alludes to something else that has already been said, done, or heard.    

  I believe that somewhere in Along for the Ride it says something a long the lines of, the story never changes just the details. Therefore, if this logic is to be believed then the future will have the same story line as today. It makes sense, we are creatures of habit .We get up in the morning shower take our coffee, go to work, ECT. Most people do the same thing repeatedly everyday. It cannot be explained why we do what we do other than we do it for comfort, for familiarity. We were creatures of habit. That is the way it is, the way has been, and looks like that is the way we will continue to be. 

Keeping try to oust the older ideas. Lets’ make improvements that burst with creativity; lets’ revolutionize the world with the same ideas done differently. For what is life with out near impossible goals and giant challenges?