Darjeeling


A cup of tea, and things of the heart that I find I cannot say elsewhere

This blog is for those thoughts that boil up in my head, but cannot be expressed in my life elsewhere. Sometimes there are things you cannot say, even to those closest to you, and yet, there they are, occupying your mind.

A great example of this is how I feel about J. After a long time, we are in touch again, and yet here we both are, happily married to other people. And yet, I find we have picked up exactly where we left off all those years ago- in love, and very close to each other.

This is wondrous complicated. He wants to see me, but I am afraid to see him face to face. The years don't matter, and I am terrified that I will jump on him and haul him off to the nearest motel room. I am pretty sure hubby wouldn't like that.

This path bears a very careful tread. I will not give J. up again, but I am, in fact, in a very good situation with hubby, and do not want to mess that up.

And yet- when I talk to J. I am all twitterpated like I was a kid. I remember so clearly our first date- my first date, in fact, and how I put on such an act of not being excited about it- and how excited I really was.

Boy, we put on the act of the century for my parents. And I remember our first kiss.

It was afternoon, and we were riding around in his car. We talked about the possibility of kissing for probably an hour without ever actually saying that was what we were talking about. One thing we definitely had was the ability to talk about things and understand each other while seeming to talk about something else entirely. Then we kissed, and it was wonderful. We kissed a lot.

Posted: Sat - April 19, 2003 at 09:57 PM