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November 18, 2007 |
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Breaking Up?
FOUND by Maria
in Petoskey, Michigan
I found this outside a psychiatrist office the other day. Don't know why I kept it; guess it was for this reason.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
First sentence is the best. I'm thinking of using that line sometime...
I HATE YOU, YOU JERK!... Best wishes! :)
Diggin' it up and lettin' it go.
This is one of the best I've read. ME
Sad thing here, whoever the reciever of this note was..probably didn't give a rats ass after getting it anyway.
Best Wishes?
L, those "best wishes" may even be sincere.
I still wish my favorite Ex well, with all my heart.
I wonder if the recipient is under psychiatric care for his narcissism. (YES! I'm making assumptions that the writer of the note is female, and hetero!)
inverted commas (quotation marks) used to be used either for a direct quote or to imply that whatever was being said within the inverted commas was faux. Is this a case of indiscriminate use of inverted commas, or is the author saying the accused didn't feel genuine love for him/her self or is "LOVE" code for something else. I mean to say, is the author accusing him/her of being a wanker?
If you're crying years worth of tears, there's got to be more to regret.
Gee, if the writer hadn't underlined their "name" so severely, they could have squeezed in a "page me later".
So he doesn't deserve new paper, but she has no problem wasting a quart of ink with the "me"?
I am not surprised this was found at a psychiatrist. I hope she found help with her wasteful addictions.
Yep, I'm with the curtain man. Sounds like a referral to masturbation.
Oh... I remember "years"... now they're becoming "months". I can deal with that. I'm too busy anyway.
The first time I read it through, I thought that she was wishing herself best wishes. i.e. "Best Wishes to ME now that I'm rid of YOU."
Loudest message is at the end, ME with all the underlining. 'I've been in your shadow for too long, I'd lost my own personality and now I'm gonna reclaim it for myself! Yay!' ('PS -- and I feel so good about it I can spare you some genuine Best Wishes')
THIS is the note I SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN to you. I've wasted faaarrrr too many years hoping, wishing, thinking, missing, looking back, and holding on to you/us/what happened.
This note liberated me. BEST. FIND. EVER.
Thanks Maria in Petosky, MI ( I loove Petosky btw)
The fact that Maria picked this up and kept it, says more about her than it does about the person who wrote it and then threw it away. Maria, is there something you'd like to discuss with the group?
I hate you, Nick. You're not worth my figuring out what number comes after 20. But I do it anyway, oh god.
Vickie is right. And I would have just left it with "I don't love you after all."
When I was back in high schoolI'd get frustrated all the time tear off pieces of paper for no real reason and write notes like this to myself sometimes they were about an ex but usually it was my own stressed angry self spilling all feelings on a scrap I hated myself as a teen I'd often leave the notes lying around too hoping someone would notice i dropped it and would read it and learn a little more about me . Very desperate reach for attention really but when you're lonely things happen....
I think it's interesting that everyone seems to assume that this is about a romantic relationship. When I read that it was found outside a psychiatrist's office, I figured it could just as likely be from a child to a non-attentive and/or abusive parent.
I think this is a very hopeful note. I hope its writer feels empowered.
This actually sounds a lot like the notes we wrote to our eating disorders when I was in recovery. We were supposed to treat them like a person and give them only what we thought they were worth. Not saying this is about an ED, but it could very easily have been a similar exercise if it was found in a shrink's office.
Maybe it was one of those notes that the psychiartrist makes you write so that you can get it all out and heal. Never meant to be read by the person it was about.
I love how the person wasn't even worthy of a whole piece of paper, just a scarp.
the Captain said: "that the writer of the note is female"
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Of course a female wrote that, no man would ever say "years of tears". I say good riddance, she sounded like a b*tch.
I think that Jericho might be a little bitter because in the past he's received a note very similar to this. Oh so sad, it's ok to let the bitterness go, and let the tears fall.
I don't think I've ever seen such a grammatically correct, well punctuated note on a scrap of paper in my life. That last line; even with the corny "years of tears" is poetic. I love it!
"they don't write 'em like that any more..."
(the breakup song)
Wasn't "Years of Tears" an 80's band? Or was it "Tears for Beers"? Oh, I don't care. They were all "Flock of Seagulls" to me.
Haha, you're thinking of Tears for Fears. I love the reference!
Cheers for Beers.
Steers for Deers. Rears for Queers. Hears for Ears.
I think Beth is right. I think this is one of those "get it all out" notes that you never send...When I was a teenager, my father thought it would be beneficial for me to see someone, and I wrote many a note like this to him, ex-boyfriends, or anyone that I had a problem with. The scrap of paper is so symbolic.
I pretty much love this find.
Love Petoskey it is a great little town! I suggest ME drops the shrink and head straight to see David Cisco a local one man band perform! What a fantastically fun adventure he is! If Dave doesn't bring you outa your funk it isn't going to happen! We used to joke he was cheaper than therapy! Now if he'd just travel to Florida and unfunk us down here! Miss ya Dave!
sounds like what my roommate said to me..that sucks.
Been here, done this, wasted years. We both had a single minded focus on the same goal for 6 years: How can we make him happy? We both spent hours and hours every day, year in and year out trying to achieve this goal. Oh well, i'm happy now!
i hope that wasn't for me.
because i love you still.
Orinoco Womble in Wimbledon Burrow - the only thing this says about me is that I hate seeing trash on the sidewalks and I forgot to clean out my pockets. Until I found this site I just threw stuff away... now I scan it first! ;)
>>Night in gale wrote:
Gee, if the writer hadn't underlined their "name" so severely, they could have squeezed in a "page me later". <<
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Love it.
I love this 'find.' I love how the writer of the piece seems to be taking back her independence. Whoever the guy was, he didn't deserve her anyway. If he read this, he'd probably just make himself feel better by looking in the mirror and thinking, "Gosh, don't I look handsome."
i could have soo used this note two months ago and given it to someone.
The note would have come across as much more sincere without the first sentence. But since it was included, I think it says more about the note writer than the intended recipient. It also makes the note easier to dismiss by assuming she's just in one of her moods.