{"id":18749,"date":"2010-05-10T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18749"},"modified":"2014-08-01T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:37:46","slug":"do-you-want-to-talk-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18749","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want To Talk About It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#8217;t want to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind blogging about it, but no, I definitely do not want to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>I hate that question, &#8220;Do you want to talk about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what type of people ask me that question? Hot chicks who realize I&#8217;m into them but they&#8217;ll never want to sleep with me, not if I&#8217;m the last man on earth, but they know they&#8217;ll still have to run into me, so they turn away my advances and then say, &#8220;Do you want to talk about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why would I want to talk about it? To talk about it would be to discuss why I feel like a loser. Less than. A zero. A wanker. Defeated. Ashamed. Humiliated. I desire you but you don&#8217;t like me in that way. I can&#8217;t bear to sit in this shame and to talk about it. I hate this place of infamy. It&#8217;s just so low and humiliating. I know you&#8217;re going to tell all your friends that I hit on you and how you refused me and then none of them will want to sleep with me.<\/p>\n<p>I measure my self-worth by the hotness of the women who sleep with me (or at least I did until I came to understand the profundity of the Torah and the need for adherence to God&#8217;s immutable &#8212; God I love that word &#8212; moral law).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a sentence that I hate ten times more than &#8220;Do you want to talk about it?&#8221; That sentence is &#8212; &#8220;We need to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t run away when someone important to me says, &#8220;We need to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scary thing is that I will live in fear until we have that conversation. So if you really want to mess with me say, &#8220;Luke, we need to talk. Let&#8217;s get together in a year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That way I will live in fear for a year.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m afraid of having to have an intimate conversation. I guess I&#8217;m afraid of intimacy. <\/p>\n<p>When I hear, &#8220;We need to talk,&#8221; I get chills up and down my spine. I start pumping with adrenalin. I immediately try to guess what the conversation will be about and how I can answer the person&#8217;s concerns. If I see that I have done something wrong, I start thinking about how effectively I could lie my way out of this problem and what would be the best way of shading the lies so that I can later defend them as truths.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think normally healthy people experience such fright when they hear, &#8220;We need to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s something wrong with me. It&#8217;s not my degree of fright when I hear these words, it&#8217;s my realization that I&#8217;m walking around with this fear all the time, but only in moments of crisis am I conscious of it.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t experience fear or any negative emotion or thought without needlessly tightening your body. Similarly, you can&#8217;t experience a positive feeling or thought without experiencing a release of tension. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why getting an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.alexandertechnique.com\">Alexander Technique<\/a> lesson makes me smile. I feel myself letting go of needless tensions and fears and I become happy. It&#8217;s great when you can let go of emotional baggage with the needless physical tension. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#8217;t want to talk about it. I don&#8217;t mind blogging about it, but no, I definitely do not want to talk about it. 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