I’m rly into this dude we’ve been on 2 awesome dates together. Now it seems like he’s not being as responsive to my texts and I’m prolly gonna find out tmr if he’s still interested in seeing me …

He got a leg injury last weekend so maybe that’s also why he’s being a lil ‘distant’? It’s so easy to engage in black and white thinking when one’s stressed/depressed!

kinda nervous but wish me luck!!! I love that you’re a superspreader of positivity :))

Good luck! You’re right, it’s much too easy to imagine the worst, even in the best of circumstances. Practice imagining the more likely (leg injury = preoccupied), practice compassion (the leg injury must be distressing to him) and as much as you can, let go of events over which you have no control.

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.