Is your face wet, sweety? That's how I usually know.

Oh sweetie, we know it gets very hard sometimes. I want you to hold on, so you can find some true friends. When I went away to college, that path started to open before me.

yeah it's wet:(

it won't make a difference whether i make true friends or not. i'll still be the exact same person. i'll never like who i am so what's the point of waiting? nothing will ever be good enough.

[blossom's abandoned self, don't take that too hard. She is saying that because that's how the people around her make her feel. We know you. We know you are beyond good enough. She just feels so bad about how she doesn't fit in]

well it's true.

Sweety, you'll be just like the rest of us, the same person, but always changing. Believe me, I'm not entirely the same person I was when I came here, last year.

More importantly, "nothing will ever be good enough" sounds like YKW. So okay, maybe she'll never like who you are, and you may never like her. How big a loss is that, really?

It doesn't mean you have to take it out on yourself.

Yes it's true, painfully true that you don't fit in. I know how that feels :( It doesn't mean that their opinions are correct. Not at all. You don't have to agree with them. I know it's a lot to ask, to go so against the stream you are in. [that's why I had to change streams ]

don't worry, i'll probably still be here this time next year. if i had any sense i'd end it all now. i'll never be able to get what i need from life so nothing will ever get better.

There's soooooo much more to life and living than the people around you have shown you. [aren't you a teensy bit curious about what's out there?]

i dunno i'm just so confused right now. i'm sorry.

[you might need some new shoes for the journey...]

Then I'm really glad you're senseless?

Wait, that came out wrong. :-P

"Never be able ...", "Nothing will Ever ..." ?

I'm sorry, baby, nineteen years just isn't long enough to make those kinds of predictions. Double it, and we'll talk. ;-)

It's so easy to get discouraged, little ladyblossom, but it passes. There will be Tigger moments tomorrow, or the day after, well, as long as you let there be a tomorrow and a day after. We need you to hang in there a while longer, sweety, that's all.

why do ye even talk to me? i'm so stupid does it not make ye frustrated?

When has it ever been stupid to be sad, baby?

Nope, I can't recall ever having been frustrated by you, no.

And I can recall dozens of times you've made me laugh, or tried to cheer me up. I bet you weren't frustrated.

no well that's different. ye're not like that everyday. i come on here everyday and act like a stupid baby. it's stupid when you feel sad everyday.

Blossom, it wasn't until I went away to college that I found people who were more like me. It wasn't until I started working with small children that I really really laughed and loved. It wasn't until I met a special someone that I REALLY laughed and loved, if you know what I mean. There is so much more out there than this that you have known so far.

You feel stupid to you. You feel wonderful and so special to us. You need to be surrounded by different people and experiences, and then feel what you feel like!

all i want is a family who wants me. that's all. but i can't have it.

No, baby, it's not stupid to be sad more often, it's just sadder.

You have a lot more negative input, even more than I did in my marriage, much less now. Of course you'd be more sad.

The only person I'd be frustrated with is YKW, and that's if I didn't yell at her, or worse.

[you've forgotten that there are other people out there:(. I'm sorry. I know it is so hard ]

hmmmmmmmmm.

malign knows what it's like to hear horrible negative things all the time. Starry knows what it's like to hear yelling and negative stuff. Should they believe that and hate themselves? That's why we are here..... to help each other, because this stuff is so hard

It's easy to see how you'd forget about anyone except the one yelling at you through the door, anyway.

That's what we're here reminding you for. :-)

Great minds continue to think alike.

ye are good people. i hope ye don't hate yourselves..

i think i'm floating.

I won't if you won't ;-)

Ye are good people, too, ladyblossom.

Remember that. She's wrong about you, but you have to stick around to prove it to her.