I forget sometimes when I am writing on this thing that this is a blog that is open to the public for people to read and relate to.
I feel that recently I’ve been rather selfish in not responding to the comments I’ve received from the little fans I’ve discovered that I have.
Most of the comments are from people who stumble upon my blog somehow but I appreciate their comments just as much as I appreciate those who have decided to subscribe and read about my life on a regular basis.
I want to take some time aside though to respond to a couple of comments that were left on my blog that I’ve neglected to answer in a prompt manner. (I hope the writers are still interested in reading a response from me :D)
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The first response is to Dave, Just Dave who wrote a comment on my Blog labeled: “There was a time I saw only you.”
This Blog I’d written after I’d lashed out at Craig in the initial Anger during my break up and I was finally coming to a time where I was missing and longing for everything good that Craig was to me. All the things I wrote in this blog were true which makes reading it again for me that much harder.
DAVE’S COMMENT:
Dave, just Dave says:
March 20, 2011 at 11:08 pm (Edit)
Somehow google brought me to this page, and I couldn’t help but read your entire post. Though I’m a guy, I just ended a relationship that to me felt much like what you wrote. I don’t have words for what I feel, and I know that you wrote this months ago and if what you wrote is true, have likely healed since you wrote it. I know I haven’t had the time yet to “get over it” and move on. But I have to ask, if just to see the light at the end of the tunnel… Have you moved on? Your words were quite powerful, and I know I feel much the same about my own situation. I guess what I’m asking is, is there light at the end of the tunnel? I’m hoping you don’t still feel the same way. I know everyone says “just give it a bit, it’ll be fine, you’ll be better than ever” blah, blah blah… It’s March now… Do you feel different?
MY RESPONSE TO DAVE’S COMMENT:
Dave,
I want to thank you for reading my blog and I’m sorry to hear about your recently break up.
I wrote my blog post sitting depressed and in despair and as a sad counterpoint to the rage and anger I’d let myself fall a victim to earlier in my grieving process, what I wrote was raw emotion verbalized that best way I could.
About your comment this is what I have to say:
I feel different but not fully healed.
It’s strange like there’s a really thick scab on my heart that is covering a terrible wound.
I’ve gotten to a point where I can look at Craig’s picture and not have it pain me.
He still isn’t talking to me which isn’t helping me find any closure.
I’ve started going out and dating and trying to find things in other men that are better than Craig but I still haven’t experienced any sparks yet that I recognize to be like the love I had for Craig.
I believe there is light at the end of the tunnel but I am just beginning to get slight glimpses of it.
Like, I’ve finally developed the ability to laugh again and smile naturally. That took me a long time, I can’t stop thinking about Craig though when I am on a date with someone else, and in my heart there’s a terrible part of me that wishes that we were still together.
There are part of me that still don’t believe that true love exists anymore and then there is a part of me that hopes and dreams that I am wrong.
“If there is no love in the world,” I tell myself “than how do men and woman survive fifty, sixty…seventy plus years together and claim that they are still as in love as the first day they met?”
Asking myself that and thinking of how my God loves me has helped me a little bit…but there are days when it all feel like it happened yesterday when it’s been almost a half a year already.
~Corinne~
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The next comment I’d like to give attention to is Jessica, she commented on my post label “The Pa/Maternal Clock…what is it and why?”
SHE SAID:
Jessica says:
March 8, 2011 at 11:52 pm
I’m really glad i came across this. I am also 20 years old and am going through the same exact thing. I know I don’t need a baby for a while but I just can’t get the idea out of my head! Makes me feel better to not be alone…very comforting!
My RESPONSE TO JESSICA:
Thank you SO MUCH for reading my blog and I’m happy that I’m not crazy and that I’m not alone in this feeling towards babies also at the age of 21 :D…you should see how I act maternally around my god children!
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Thirdly I’d like to respond to Jeff Noel’s comment at Jeffnoel.org:
Jeff commented on my post “As a Christian Writing about Christianity” with these encouraging words:
Corinne, found your post through Twitter. It really is a Small World After All. :)
Anyway, I write 5 daily, differently-themed blogs about Life’s Big Choices, one of which is our Spiritual Responsibility.
All posts are short and pithy, and you may find them encouraging in your quest to be more transparent on your blog.
I don’t sell anything, except hope and encouragement.
Best wishes for an awesome Spring. jeff
MY RESPONSE:
Thanks Jeff I will definitely subscribe to your blog,
thanks for stopping by mine and I appreciate the well wishes!
It’s nice to find encouraging Christian Bloggers nowadays.
~Corinne~
I hope to be able to respond to more comments more promptly in the future…
I welcome all readers to comment I LOVE GETTING FEEDBACK!
And I’m really happy to see that my blog is actually out in the world to help and influence people.