Crisis and Management

However enraptured you may be at certain landscapes, or scared whenever you have to make a great effort to go ahead, don’t get too used to anything.

From a post by Paulo Coelho titled “Manual for conserving paths”

I’m in touch my senior high school buddy Samuel, and he’s trying to “fall out of love.” He’s seeking help how to do it, and he’s sharing it with me, which I’ll share with you guys, with his permission, of course. Here goes:

Hi Ann,

This will not make any sense, but it’s there, and I’m looking for help. I’m sorry if this sounds like “Dear Abby” but you’re more like a friend who, I think, knows a little bit about me.

I think I’m falling in love with a girl. She’s 21, and is studying law in the UK. She thinks the world of me, and knows I just crossed 50. We’ve been chatting on the Internet every day 2 to 3 hours every day the last three weeks or so. I first talked to her last year, and then it was off and on. She’s white, Caucasian and I’m not. Not that I care, and I don’t think she cares, either.

She said once last week that she thinks she’s falling in love with me.

Now, you know Ann, relationships are like poison to me. I can’t handle them. I want it, but I don’t want it. I’m your typical “hopeless romantic” and I can fall in love at the drop of a hat.

Is this like that? Given the shallow person I am, maybe it’s just a teenage infatuation, cause I’m still “there”?

I don’t expect you to tell me what to do, Ann. If you can provide some pointers as to how I should think, that will be great.

I know you’re busy. This is not urgent by any means.

Maybe I just wanted to write… that’s one way I think aloud.

Thanks.

Samuel

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