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For some reason, the mathematical analysis of relationships always makes my students smile. You can always tell someone, "There are other fish in the sea," but it's so cliche and seems like a band-aid. Put some equations on a blackboard as proof, have someone work it out for themselves, and all of a sudden he or she knows there are indeed other fish, probably one better than the last one that caught. All one has to do is heal and toss out a line. As an aside toward my own feelings of loneliness now, the healing is done... lines are being tossed at Match.com and Yahoo! Personals... it's just a matter of making some more money in order to afford to find Ms. Right. Hell, right now I wish I had enough to subcribe to either so I could reply to the responses to my ads. At the time I had feelings of loneliness as well. The year before I'd had my heart broken once and toyed-with once, and I hadn't been on a date in eight months. After the "lesson," Jackie asked if we could talk later while she went to visit a couple other teachers. I said sure, then finished talking with the ones in my room. When "later" came around, we starting catching up about how school was going for each of us... and she also wished me a happy birthday. It was nice, but it was also getting late in the day. I asked if she'd like to go somewhere to continue. We ended up going off to Winona (far enough away to avoid suspicion) and saw a movie together. On the way home, she said it was funny that she'd come into my class when I was teaching about finding the right person in one's life. She said that after a year away in college, she realized that no one seemed to care for her as I did. |