I should've made a move

[Gomaki]

Wow, keep us posted. I related a lot to your story... hope it ends up alright in the end!

 

[wentworth]

Thinking of your getting close, and people looking at you.... there's a dude named Richard Feynman, won a Nobel Prize for some really important work in quantum physics, and also something of a philosopher. Every year he gives a lecture to a beginning physics class in which he asks, "So what do you care what other people think?" He says if he'd cared what other people think, he never would have gotten his Nobel.

Think about it.

Richard Feynman is dead--and has been for quite some time (Since Soviet days--20 or more years).

 

[Kulindahr]

That was full of feeling -- I'm glad you posted it.

 

[Kulindahr]

All I can say to that is, "People are weird!"
And if they press you to treat another person differently because they'd like you to, tell them they're not your boss, that you're going to continue to be friends as you want, not as anyone else wants.

Here's a thought to ponder through all of this: You own yourself. In this sort of situation that means don't let anyone else tell you what to do; be your own person.
Hang in there, dude!