speeding so fast it felt like i was drunk ([info]barethighs) wrote,
@ 2003-11-24 12:56:00
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tell me one thing you remember about me; (re-edited)
so.

tell me something about myself - something you like, please. i won't pretend to want criticism.

then, tell me something about yourself. a secret, a fear, a crush, a story. anything.

the catch? do it anonymously.

this was inspired by a post from letterbox.

P.S. - this is a post which can now be anonymous. thanks to the previous non-anonymous comments. *smile*

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-24 03:11 pm UTC (link)
i'm afraid that no one loves me in that forever type of way.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:05 pm UTC (link)
you deserve to be loved in a forever type way. and don't settle for less. ever.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-24 05:01 pm UTC (link)
i like you more than anyone i know online. you are drop dead gorgeous and your words are inspirational and your music is passionate, in fact i admire you deeply. if i knew you in real life i would be attracted to you (in a friends way, i guess i have to make that clear because this is anonymous) because i have the clear impression that you are someone who lights up a room without realizing it, because that is totally what you do on livejournal.

my "best friend" annoys me to no end lately. i want to smack her and tell her to get a clue. in fact, the urge arises in me at least 4 times a day.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:09 pm UTC (link)
i tend to stand in the corner when i enter a room, so i'm not sure how much i light it up, but thank you for thinking that way. and the fact that you like me more than anyone online is....well, let's just say it was really nice to hear because i read it on a day where i needed someone to say that to me. even if i have no idea who you are.

go ahead and smack your best friend. if you want her to keep the title, that is. silence equals suffocation.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-24 05:03 pm UTC (link)
i like that you are different than a lot of people i have met, who i thought you might be the same as. your personality is distinct. and that's cool.

i have a very hard time letting other people know me. but my biggest desire in all the world is for people to know me all the way through.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:10 pm UTC (link)
have we met? and if we have, i'm glad that you walked away with a better impression than you thought you'd have. ;)

that's my biggest desire, too. i know where you're coming from.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-24 05:38 pm UTC (link)
you're so honest and pure of heart. i admire your strength so much and think you have maturity beyond your years.

i hide behind smiles and fear that i will never find someone to grow old with.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:11 pm UTC (link)
you will find someone. you'll find them when you're not looking. they'll come up and slap you in the face someday. and it'll be fucking beautiful.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-24 06:22 pm UTC (link)
I love him so much it hurts.

And I can't have him. Not even a little bit anymore.

And sometimes, I want to die because of it.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:14 pm UTC (link)
it's okay that it hurts so much. maybe the hurt will fade...maybe it never will. but you're stronger than you think you are and you'll move on, even if it takes a while. i'm not in your shoes but i've walked in similiar ones where simply brushing your teeth hurts because nothing else seems to much matter.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-24 07:00 pm UTC (link)
I love your honesty and how out there you are, meaning the way you put yourself out into the world and tell everyone to take you the way you are.


And I'm terrified that I have no clue on what to be when I grow up. A large part of me still wants to be Wendy from "Peter Pan".

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:18 pm UTC (link)
peter pan is my fave disney movie, hands down. sometimes being peter pan doesn't sound like such a bad thing.

don't worry though. you'll figure it out. who says you have to know right.this.second?

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-25 08:02 am UTC (link)
your ambition has always inspired me. your brutal honesty intimidates me and sometimes scares me into silence. but never lose that, because it's one of your most wonderful qualities.

i'm afraid to be honest because i don't think that people will want to hear my truth.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:24 pm UTC (link)
i would never want to scare anyone into silence and i'm so sorry if i've ever done that to you. please know that's something which was never my intention.

bullshit as many people as you want, but always be honest with yourself.

and people do want to hear what you have to say. they're probably waiting on you. ;)

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-26 09:30 pm UTC (link)
shelby, you have a beautiful smile.
and even though you have those days when you feel absolutely useless, you really are stronger than you think.


i fear that i'll never experience real love, that i'll never meet a guy who wants me for everything that i am.
i'm jealous of my best friend's relationship with her boyfriend. i want what they have. i want a boy that willingly comes over to visit me after he's finished work. i want a boy to want to spend unproductive time with me, just doing nothing for hours.
(i don't want my friend's boyfriend, just someone who wants me the way he wants (and loves) her).

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:38 pm UTC (link)
i feel like all my life i've watched boys adore girls who were not me. you'll get your turn. some wonderful man is waiting to sweep you off of your feet!!

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-27 02:29 am UTC (link)
your words always explode with such truth and they make me ache, but in a good way...in a really great way. you live your life always pushing forward, the way i wish i could. you pour every ounce of your soul into whatever it is you're doing. you're one of my favourite people. ever.

oh yeah...and you're hot. ;)

i have a weird habit of sitting in my car and plucking my eyebrows in the sunlight. i'm afraid i'll never get to do the things i really want to. i worry i let my health and fear keep me away from truly experiencing my dreams. i know i'll never get over him and that scares me more than anything else ever has.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:27 pm UTC (link)
i think i might know who you are and if you're who i think you are, you're one of my favorite people, ever, too. i heart you.

plucking your eyebrows in the sun? that's pretty weird, man. but endearing all the same.

you might get over him one day. but if you don't, ever, that's okay. i think there's always one person we'll never get over. the aches and pains of life.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-27 11:36 am UTC (link)
for a long time i only knew of you but the moment i saw you i knew who you were. you exude a sort of specialness not many people have. you are beautiful & independant. you intimidated me because you are the kind of person that follows your heart & your dreams. & thats something i envy more than anything.

i worry i'll never get out of this town & if i do it will have to be without the boy that has become my second half. i'm terrified of the fact that i LET someone become my second half. i'm scared that i don't know how to live without him. i'm scared of my own feelings sometimes, because i think that somewhere in between all the heartache & the "growing up" i forgot what it means to REALLY love someone.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:30 pm UTC (link)
thank you for so many kind words.

you'll get out of town if you want to badly enough. you're stronger than you think. and if you can't take your second half along for the ride, send a few postcards. and maybe he'll like them so much, he'll want to join you someday.

just don't let anyone ever hold you back from flying. no matter how much you love them.

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[info]manica
2004-12-07 10:07 pm UTC (link)
shelby, that is some of the best advice i have ever read. i am asking you advice from now on!

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-27 06:43 pm UTC (link)
1. you are one of those girls who makes me think, "damn, I want to be like her when I grow up." I think that you radiate and have no idea... but you do.

2. I am afraid that I will only catch the corner of the glow from my amazing and never glow myself. Not the kind of glow that anyone gives a damn about, anyway.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:32 pm UTC (link)
ahh, growing up. wouldn't that be a nice thing for me (or anyone for that matter) to actually do? ;)

you will glow. you're glowing right now, i can see you! stop! augghhhh it's sooooo bright!!!!

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-27 10:57 pm UTC (link)
When I'm driving home late at night and there's a darkness no streetlight could ever diminish, I listen to Ecstacy. And it doesn't feel so dark anymore.

You're strength, Shelby. & I mean it like that. You are strength.

My secret? Sometimes I'm so scared of life that all I can do is cry.

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[info]barethighs
2003-11-27 11:34 pm UTC (link)
thank you. so much, i think i really needed to hear that. and i'm glad that ecstasy does that for you, it means more than you know to hear that from somebody.

sometimes all you can do is cry. and that's okay. it really is.

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(Anonymous)
2003-11-30 02:09 am UTC (link)
YOU: you have an amazing sense of adventure, and an equally amazing and incredible view of the world that never ceases to facinate me. you're so independent, and even though i know you're afraid of some of the huge risks and choices you've made in your life i am in awe of how smoothly you seem to move throughout and what an intense amount of stregnth you have.

ME: I am afraid that I am destined to never reach my ultimate goals...to forever be stuck in one place... sort of like, what if this is the best I'll ever do....

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that i liked your borrowed line from tracy chapman....
[info]rexford
2004-05-25 03:41 am UTC (link)
...now one thing about myself....? hmmmmmmm, that i aspire to be a decent human being, and hope to find true love somday...and that i'm a good catholic...the rest is trivial, i act, direct, sing, songwrite, i make custom-made greeting cards and sell them at the folk music center owned by ben harper and i'm going to school in hopes to become a psych-aide for las encinas hospital or aurora charter oak...for people who have substance and alcohol issues or mental heath as well...i wanna do it all. my name is beaux enriquez -berkey you can look me up under any search program....i'm listed.

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[info]yaweknow
2004-09-23 01:15 am UTC (link)
hey i tried to email you about bein added, ive ran across some of your websites, mostly journals and one site too with music...id love to read some more entries...let me know...

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(Anonymous)
2004-09-24 11:29 am UTC (link)
I like that you are genuinely kind, generous, and trusting. You were a treasure trove of support and help. I truly don't think I could have understood the world as I do had I never had you in my life.

A secret? At that time, what happened between us was more hurtful and crushing to my self esteem than I ever let on. I pretended that I didn't care and it didn't matter. In reality, I was destroyed and it took me a long time to recover. I just didn't understand at the time why I was singled out and rejected. Now I know that everyone has reasons for everything, and even hurtful situations can end up beneficial to both parties.

I'm truly happy for you as it seems that you're content in your life. Even if we don't know each other anymore, and I'm not even sure what made me read this LJ when I realized it was yours (I hope you don't feel strange about it), but I felt the need to let you know that even people you knew a long time ago still think warmly of you.

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You renew my faith in the future....
[info]thedeadawaken
2004-10-09 09:30 am UTC (link)
...you are the reason the world will be fabulous!!

Honestly, the last couple of days have made me see that my cynicism and distrust that the future will be anything but horrible was just wrong. I thought that the world was filled with the same disaffected youth of when I was young. But it's not. It's filled with people who have passion and a lust for life. If people like you and Catherine and Hillary and Mallory and Amy and Abbie are the future, then it will be nothing but amazing.

Once upon a time, I wanted to rule the world. Now, I am just happy to sit and watch YOU do it!!

Stephanie

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