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August 10, 2003 |
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But Really
FOUND by Jamie and Alan
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
I found this note sloppily folded in half outside a college dorm. The saddest part is the way the writer kind of runs out of steam at the end...
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I love this, it so <em>real</em> and it's more like thoughts than what someone would write to another person.
awh I really like this. It's the confused desperation of someone who just lost his love. I don't think the writer lost steam at the end, I think it's beautiful how the last line is abbreviated.
It's really easy to empathize with this author.
He definitely lost steam or something at the end- he didn't write a question mark. Which is, I think, even more heart-wrenching and beautiful.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Ye
Tiny writing ! Where's the magnifier thing ?
I don't think this sounds beautiful, he sounds like he has potential to become a stalker - one of those guys who just won't let her go because he doesn't understand why it ended.
I think it's sad. After a break up a lot of people think that..
Beautiful? I'm not sure why heartbreak becomes so palatable for you people, just because it's a vicarious experience through someone else. Jesus it's not poetry it's some poor guy's private feelings.
I think its hysterically funny for some reason, actuallyit's the handwriting that makes it seem scary, real scary the longer I look at it. Im scared now.
CREEPTACULAR.
Sarah... they are all private thoughts and feelings. This site is built on the exploitation of private matters.
Holy cow. I know the guy who wrote this.
I think this is incredibly creepy! Imagine getting this note from a guy after breaking up with him... I'd be completely weirded out! I guess I can see it being sad, but more weird than anything!
who writes like that?
this is really scary.
I wrote this, most likely, during my sophomore year of college.
Anne and I continued dating on-and-off for awhile, and though we're still friends, we don't talk much anymore.
And for everyone wanting to judge,
1. Yes, she was the first big heartbreak. I hadn't really had one like that before or since.
2. I write. I dare you to try to write something artful for someone -anyone- and not sound creepy.
3. I was probably drunk. Being young and foolish.
4. I was nineteen. And very stupid. I'm still pretty stupid, but hey, it is what it is.
A little over a week ago, Andy in LA emailed me, and I just now received it. Wow. I'm just kind of- I'm at a loss.
I wrote this, most likely, during my sophomore year of college.
Anne and I continued dating on-and-off for awhile, and though we're still friends, we don't talk much anymore.
And for everyone wanting to judge,
1. Yes, she was the first big heartbreak. I hadn't really had one like that before or since.
2. I write. I dare you to try to write something artful for someone -anyone- and not sound creepy.
3. I was probably drunk. Being young and foolish.
4. I was nineteen. And very stupid. I'm still pretty stupid, but hey, it is what it is.
A little over a week ago, Andy in LA emailed me, and I just now received it. Wow. I'm just kind of- I'm at a loss.
This is so sad.
I've felt like this.
More times than I'd like to have felt like this.
The handwriting makes me think he's someone who compartamentalizes his life. Maybe that's why it didn't work out. And the tiny size of the writing makes me think he is repressed or can't open up. Painful, really.
Nikki in The UP said:
I don't think this sounds beautiful, he sounds like he has potential to become a stalker - one of those guys who just won't let her go because he doesn't understand why it ended.
wow your a jerk i feel sorry for the guy
These are the lyrics to "We're We Really So Bad Together" by Philip Glass and Elton John.
Well, I messed that up, didn't I? It's "were" not "we're." So much for trying to post a comment while someone is explaining something to me.
I meant the joking claim as a compliment: the refrain reminds me of the repetitive minimalism of the composer Philip Glass, and the words, of the final lines of "Goodbye":
I'm sorry I took your time
I am the poem that doesn't rhyme
Just turn back a page
I'll waste away, I'll waste away
I'll waste away, I'll waste away
I'll waste away, I'll waste away
(From "Madman Across the Water" 1971)
There's a deep sadness in this note. I don't think it is creepy at all.
i cant understand shit which makes me really intriged
I've felt like this, too.
This guy is an engineer or mathematician or something. He writes really small and is obsessing because he lacks the answer he wants.
This is really sad - obessive thought pattern.Maybe it's best they broke up.
I think the handwriting is interesting. Even though I had to open the little magnifier thing to read it.
I kind of like it actually.
I also think it's kind of interesting that the last word looks sort of spread out. Probably from like tiredness or sadness, but the first thing I thought was, 'OMG HE GOT KIDNAPPED WHILE HE WAS WRITING!' xP
But yeah it is kinda sad.
Shall we perhaps acknowledge that we have FOUND the writer of this letter? And he's given his thoughts? And, Justin, what's the story with your penmanship?
With all due respect, Crisis, Elton John and Bernie Taupin are the composers of the song you cited.
But Philip Glass would have loved this note!
8-)
(Did you know that and I missed your joke?)
Justin, seriously, that was you?
I understand the artful thing. Those words were repeating themselvse in your head, and you tried to convey that in your note. I hope you're ok now. We're all stupid, i think, when it comes to love. When the other one ends things, and you're at a loss to figure out where things went wrong.
clearly this is why it didn't work out.
love makes you stupid AND crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy yzarc yzarc yzarc yzarc yzarc
I love this note. It's definitely among my all time favorite Finds. It SO reminds me of something my first "serious" boyfriend might have written toward the end of it all (the end of that nine years of bliss, chaos, passion and fury...) sigh. But yeah, Haro, we really were that bad together. Not good for each other at all. But parts of it sure were FUN, huh?