Comments on: Hope… and Hopelessness http://cwm.subtlethought.com/blog/hope-and-hopelessness Better here than nowhere Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: cher http://cwm.subtlethought.com/blog/hope-and-hopelessness/comment-page-1#comment-211546 cher Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:35:51 +0000 http://cwm.subtlethought.com/blog/hope-and-hopelessness#comment-211546 Hey korkor.. This is gonna look so small next to the other comment here haha but just wanna say, for what it's worth, we will always be here for u.. I will :) Even if i'm ever overseas again just call and I will listen :D hehe. With friends, all problems can always be solved.. it's just a matter of time and perspective. :) So keep your chin up! Hey korkor..
This is gonna look so small next to the other comment here haha but just wanna say, for what it’s worth, we will always be here for u.. I will :) Even if i’m ever overseas again just call and I will listen :D hehe. With friends, all problems can always be solved.. it’s just a matter of time and perspective. :) So keep your chin up!

]]> By: Tim http://cwm.subtlethought.com/blog/hope-and-hopelessness/comment-page-1#comment-211520 Tim Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:27:27 +0000 http://cwm.subtlethought.com/blog/hope-and-hopelessness#comment-211520 Pete, I think you're so incredibly fortunate to be you - you could be gay and live a life always on the outside, wondering what it would be like to just be normal. You could be given everything you thought you wanted in life, only to realise: crap, I had it wrong all along. You are a straight male, young, full of time, time, time - time to make mistakes, feel guilty and shite, embarrassed, and then happy that you STILL have time to go off and make another mistake. You live in a world where it is easy (or at least, easier) to find people like you - try being a gay chinese boy in Perth for a day! I don't say this to play some kinda "my life is worse off than yours" thing with you - but to say, there are some mornings I wake up with a slight tear in my eyes, almost wishing that when I open them, I'd be a completely different person, in a completely different life. But I only have this life, and the present - and why give it up? For any reason at all? You once told me that I made your life a living hell in secondary school which, I have to say, affected me - I didn't realise this at the time. To me, I knew from the very beginning I was different, and that I had to arm myself - you seem to rally the geps around you at every turn (yes, you did - you might be unconscious of this), while I was an outsider in a group that was already on the outside. I know this is no longer an issue between us, but I'm to say is that you are a very, very different person to people around you than you are to yourself. And while I can't say that we're anything more than ex-classmates - the world will be worse off without you. Merry Christmas, Pete. Pete, I think you’re so incredibly fortunate to be you – you could be gay and live a life always on the outside, wondering what it would be like to just be normal. You could be given everything you thought you wanted in life, only to realise: crap, I had it wrong all along. You are a straight male, young, full of time, time, time – time to make mistakes, feel guilty and shite, embarrassed, and then happy that you STILL have time to go off and make another mistake. You live in a world where it is easy (or at least, easier) to find people like you – try being a gay chinese boy in Perth for a day! I don’t say this to play some kinda “my life is worse off than yours” thing with you – but to say, there are some mornings I wake up with a slight tear in my eyes, almost wishing that when I open them, I’d be a completely different person, in a completely different life. But I only have this life, and the present – and why give it up? For any reason at all?

You once told me that I made your life a living hell in secondary school which, I have to say, affected me – I didn’t realise this at the time. To me, I knew from the very beginning I was different, and that I had to arm myself – you seem to rally the geps around you at every turn (yes, you did – you might be unconscious of this), while I was an outsider in a group that was already on the outside. I know this is no longer an issue between us, but I’m to say is that you are a very, very different person to people around you than you are to yourself. And while I can’t say that we’re anything more than ex-classmates – the world will be worse off without you.

Merry Christmas, Pete.

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