guts

I was just reading the last entry on Osvaldo's blog, where he was speaking about a woman he met briefly; and how he realized in the space of a second, from one comment she made, that she would not be a good dating candidate for him. (O - if I'm summing up badly, I apologize.)

I, too, have had this experience, and it's still an odd one, when it happens, but I'm grateful for it. -You can be going along getting to know someone, and feeling impressed, intrigued, interested. And then - boom - they say or do something; and it can be a minor thing, as minor as slightly misinterpreting something you say - but suddenly you know, as well as you know anything in life, that they're just not on the same page, and that a relationship with them just wouldn't work. At all.

Because that slight misunderstanding could only have happened if about ten other extremely important things were off-kilter between you.

And it's often somewhat of a bummer to get this fateful internal telegram, cause he was so cool... damn.
But there's nothing to be done. It just is. It just isn't. It's over.

And, really, the mechanism itself is pretty darn amazing. Guts are great!