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August 08, 2004 |
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It Always Feels Better Once It's Done
FOUND by William Bearden
I found this postcard in 2000, and have had it on my bulletin board ever since. The note was written to a Memphis woman from an address in Missouri back in 1957. I guess they'd had enough.
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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...
Even I feel better.
What does the second sentence say? I'm finding it rather enigmatic at the moment.
I also had a hard time reading this one, but I think I figured it out:
"I finally done it today. Feel like a bird out of a cage. I finally just had to come out & tell her
I wonder what the confession was?
what in the world does that say
Very inspirational! Makes me want to confess something.
To me it really seems like the guy was having an affair with said Memphis woman and finally confessed to his wife. Just goes to show how much faith I have in men, huh?
I reaaally want to know the story behind this.
Sounds like a woman who just came out of the closet and told her lady love just what she wanted to do to her.
I sighed with relief for this person when I read this. By the handwriting I would definitely say it's a woman. We all carry burdens and it's such a relief to just be honest and lay them out in the open. I think it could have been anything, but probably something she didn't like about whoever the person was she finally told abuot the problem.
I hope it was much easier than she feared it would be. We tend to go round and round in our heads imagining the worst-case scenario and something that has grown huge in our minds passes off almost without comment.
Oh freedom!
To say it's a woman is a bit biased. My great uncle wrote similarly.
Maybe a man who was having an affair? Possibly.
To "Hayley in deep thought" I say: Yep, me too.
Those lines could be a country song.
Y'all are so negative. Maybe he got the guts to tell her he loved her.
I'm with you, Mel. My first thought is that he told the woman he loved her. I've been there...
I think that if the writer was referring to saying something positive there would be an exclamation point after the word 'today' - but there isn't. I believe the revelation was a downer and the writer finally feels relief.
This is from a man that had been stucked in a dead, life-drained marriage for the last 25 years, whom have just found the courage to tell his wife that he is leaving. The releif...the releif...
"Honey, I'm a transvestite!"
I recieved a similar text message once, from a close friend - he had just told his mother he was gay. I guess in 1957 sending a "text message" just took a little longer! :p
I wish someone would tell me what they have been thinking about. I wish someone had something to tell me
I'm with Mel and Doug - that was my first thought. But if it was a woman, esp. in 1957, I'm thinking something more along the lines of telling a child she's adopted, or conversely telling a child that the note-writer is her biological mom. In any case, there's nothing that compares to that feeling of relief after you do a long-anticipated deed (unless it's walking into the AC in the middle of August in Texas).
I just pray that he didn't finally bring himself out of the closet to her and destroy their marriage. There's way too much of that going around. -- NOT that maintaining a mixed orientation marriage is any good either. If you're gay/lesbian/trans fine, but don't marry a straight person in the first place. Then it'll be one less cage you have to be freed from.
I'd like to think that this was the note Larry Craig wanted to write, but never had the nerve...
i love the different interpretations of the FOUND objects... we can all see a bit of ourselves in the objects and that is how one object can be a coming-out letter, a suicide letter, a love-letter, someone leaving a relationship.
i think our views of theses objects say more about ourselves then about the actuall objects.
<3
I see that a recurring theme on a lot of the comments on this site involves homosexuality. Why is that? Is it possible that there are other deep dark secrets to be told besides "I'm gay?"
It could be a man or a woman's handwriting, and it could be any number of secrets - good or bad. I like the affair idea myself.