
Unrequited love is one of the hard parts of being a person with a heart and emotions. Moving on and looking towards a brighter future is a good plan. It make take time, but these feelings do fade.
Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
Unrequited love is one of the hard parts of being a person with a heart and emotions. Moving on and looking towards a brighter future is a good plan. It make take time, but these feelings do fade.
If you make a strong case for it, some people might agree! Here’s a start with some books in our collection: bit.ly/BC-capitalism-racism
After the horrific shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, Chad Williams, a history professor at Brandeis, began the historian-crowd-sourced #CharlestonSyllabus, which in just a few days amassed several hundred titles. Here they all are in a WorldCat List: bit.ly/BC-charleston. Some more recent titles worth pursuing: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson; The Disordered Cosmos, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein; We Do This Till We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba; Stamped from the Beginning, by Ibram Kendi.
Suggestions from close to far: Boston – really get to know it and spend time walking around this walkable city; Cape Ann – explore the coastal history and walk the beaches and rocky headland; Berkshires – so many museums and historic houses; Quebec City – if getting into (and out of) Canada is doable, its like a little bit of Europe not very many hours away.
Isn’t art just an amazing medium to express all the things? Where would humanity be without art? I am so glad you make art and will continue to make art. If you feel yourself slipping into depression, even after envisioning your artist future, may I gently urge you to chat with Counseling Services? They can help you work through these feelings <3 bit.ly/BC-counseling
Sounds like a great thing to work on with a peer wellness coach from the Office of Health Promotion (bit.ly/BC-wellness-coach)
To answer your questions in order: 1. Anyone who uses the word “simp” as anything other than a joke is too immature to be commenting on anyone else’s relationship. Ignore those people and do what makes you and your girlfriend happy. 2. You can choose from two options here: either politely stop commenting on your relationship to these friends so that they have nothing to use as go-betweens and they can’t do anything to interrupt your plans. Or you could decide to involve them and ask for their help planning your Valentine’s date. If it seems like they’re just over-excited for their friend, they might be excited to give you ideas for what she’d enjoy doing as a date. You also don’t need to use their ideas, sometimes just allowing someone to feel heard will help them take a step back. 3. Try not to overthink things. Dating is all about getting to know someone new and having fun together, if you put too much pressure on yourself to be perfect you can end up getting in your own way because the person you’re dating won’t be getting to know the real you. Have a fantastic Valentine’s Day, hopefully everything works out for the best!