If I am accused of 'torrid conversations' - from 'Notes' - 24 August 2008

I have no problem if it makes me look like someone with many affairs. It makes me look good, that indeed I could get away with many affairs. Who will have an affair with me? In college, I was underweight, dark, thick glasses, worse than a nerd. Without money or vehicle. While in research, always in the wilderness, bearish looking, sunken in work, in the wierdest locations, gaining in weight, but still a nerd. I think I married at the correct time. I was just right. 70 kgs, new glasses, slim, trim, with vehicle and easy in workload. Since then, who will have an affair with me? Moved up from 70 to 105 kgs, slim to big paunch, trim to sunken shoulders, and always drowned in work. I wonder, if I will ever have the time to have an affair even if there was indeed someone willing to do have an affair with  me.


"Torrid conversations" is another charge. I maintain, that with my platonic look to friendships, I do look at and interact with men and women equally. Either with a cousin sister or with an internet friend. Both are neutral in friendship. Neither an acquaintance nor a relationship. I do talk to men as I would talk to women, and vice versa. At the extent of the charge, if a "torrid conversation" would mean a relationship with a woman, then such discussions with men, could also mean the same. Is that acceptable or does it make it worse?

My wife comes from a different background and is not familiar with such friendships and tends to lump it in her mentally, extremely unstable schizophrenic approach to assumptions. I feel sorry for the women to be so accused of a relationship with me. I feel sorry for myself, that I am being accused of such relationships, when I have not had any affair with them.

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