Question of the Week #3

(— Question of the Week #2

What are your thoughts on the penny?
Recently the Canadian Government decided to stop manufacturing pennies.
How do you feel about that?

— Question of the Week #3

Question of the Week #2

(— Question of the Week #1

Question of the Week #3 —)

Would you rather have your cake, or eat it?
Maybe it’s that toy you really wanted. Or that really pretty flower on the bush. Whatever it is, its use is limited; the toy will break and the flower will die, but only if you take it.
Do you?

— Question of the Week #2

Question of the Week #1

Question of the Week #2 —)

Have you told the person you like that you like them?
Maybe you’ve known them for years. Maybe only a couple of weeks. Your heart flutters when you think about them. In your mind, the two of you are perfect together. They are the one for you.
Have you told them?

Welcome to Question #1. Every week (it won’t be every week) I’ll put up a question, ramble on about it for a bit, and then would very much like it if you chip in your opinion. This might seem like a big question to start with, but I felt that pulling my punches with a fake, easy question would be a little disingenuous.

So, have you told them you like them? If not, why not? If you have, have you done it recently?

They came with the frame.

A couple months about a year ago I managed to work up the courage to tell the girl I like that I liked her. Her response was a small smile and a “Yeah, I know,” (I had said “… You know I like you, right?”)

But why is it so hard? Best case scenario is that they like you back, while worse case scenario is that you learn that they don’t (if they do worse, then I don’t imagine them being someone you’d want to be with anyway). Then hopefully you could move on.

Depending on how subtle or introverted you are, they might already know. Maybe they like you back, but don’t know if you like them. I know if someone liked me I would want them to say so.

But that’s the thing, though, isn’t it? Telling someone that you like them is really putting yourself out there. That’s a very vulnerable minute. And no one likes feeling vulnerable. People like feeling safe, or routine.

A case of “Better safe than sorry” versus “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”

“Make your choice, adventurous Stranger,
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.”
— C.S. Lewis (The Magician’s Nephew)