nkwriter101

So I recently discovered that I fit the profile for the INFJ personality type and I have to confess that I feel a certain loss of autonomy. I sometimes question now what human virtue really is- because a lot of the choices that I make that express good qualities like consideration for others, empathy, self-awareness, patience, kindness- seem rooted more in my personality type than an active striving to live and a certain way.

Don't get me wrong, I think part of the reason that I possess the traits that I do has to do with choices that I made during my formative years as well as the environment I was raised in. Throughout college though, I feel like some of my peers and teachers even will

Hi reddit,

I need help desperately to feed myself properly. I got back from school where I was eating poorly and now on days that I don't eat well this is what happens. I begin sticking my tongue out when I start eating and licking my face as if there might be food there. I will stick my tongue out involuntarily like a reflex. I often get very hungry and then struggle to eat fully because this reflex kicks in.

Apart from this I find that I cannot sleep at night because of lack of food in my body that keeps me awake.

PLEASE HELP. I am desperate for advice and need help constructing a meal plan or solution so that I can eat well during the day and stop being dysfunctional. Does this happ

Hey everyone,

I had a fairly simply question. I had written a whole bunch of poems about someone that I liked and I think that he could relate to what I've written. We're not together and he's with someone else now. I don't mention him by name in any of the poems but I was contemplating publishing this book of poetry at some point and I kept thinking how nice it would be if he got to read some just because he maybe could relate to some of the work. Also, he was the first person I ever shared this dream of publishing with. How could I go about letting him know about the book without making it seem like I want to get together with him?

Pleas let me know of your thoughts.

A rustle of leaves makes me weak at the knees

I turn my broad back overwhelmed

Love of my wife, hold me, lest this girl I seize

Exposing emotions she leaves me unhelmed.

An alarm bell drones calling me to work

My eyes flutter open from their nightly spell

Reliable and steady, responsibilities I don’t shirk

Though upon this girl all the while my heart may dwell

Ah, lamentable events, my heart is well spent

Caught between two worlds

To go from habitual happiness to daily discontent

From the moment her seductive scent unfurled

After sating my belly with a healthy breakfast

I pull out in a smooth, undetected electric car

Right into, not road, but a raging tempest

of feelin

Unrequited love is like a winter’s day

The blanketing snow rests complacent

Tranquilly it shines and calls us out to play

Green weeds refuse to die and poke up adjacent

​

Two loving hearts ensconced in separate homes

Stealing glimpses through linen curtained windows

How does a disappointed heart still find time to roam

For the years I felt alone I wish it hadn’t been so

​

To be near to you was all that I would pray

For I detest the cold; the crunching snow beneath

When the sun beats down and lifts the white carpet away

I will come running and with respectable chagrin plant myself at your feet

​

And in the morning when you leave for work

A hand touching mine

Or accidentally grazing my thigh

Sends my nerves into overdrive

A red pansy percolates through my cheeks

A train rattles and shakes my back

My spine arches like a cat clawing

at a calm countenance

Informing the world like a whale moaning at sea

(I have bodily wants and needs)

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Even though we’re not together

And probably will never be

In my heart I believe

That you loved me

Your words were few but

spoken with such intensity

Like a tidal wave they tore down

The dam holding my desire in

Shivers ran through my length

Your eyes never left mine

Could you hear the tremors at the

thought of your hands gentle strength?

I felt the freed water surround me

Like a gentle cocoon

Yet apart from moments of intensity

How did we fulfill each other’s needs?

So I queried as I built the dam back up but

even to this day

The walls would crack like dried brown earth

From the deluge of your touch

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You walked into my life 

An unassuming unimpressive sight 

Eager to heed your wife 

The epitome of what a partner should be like 

I walked closer curious 

Resisting impulses that shouldn’t be there

It was too late 

I fell into my feelings 

A fairground of emotions; colorful and dizzying

Not able to see up from down 

Go closer to him

An oscillating thought 

You turned your back 

For fear of something so potent 

Was holding you tight 

Go closer to him 

I drifted in your direction

against my my better sense

Showed you in a gesture of my breasts pressed together

Feelings are frightful events

You didn't look scared just surprised

Said to me looking up into my eyes

"If I was

What have I gained

from all of this pain. 

It's better to try and fail

Because even though it hurts to fall 

Lying still is the worst of all 

So I try to stand up again 

But keep choking on my splintered ends 

It used to be okay 

Because trying was my everyday 

And now I am truly lost

Realizing what this year has cost 

But Nothing. 

It has been my life 

Because I have been home 

To a mind that was a stranger from a faraway land 
Who's ways I tried but failed to understand 

So What have I gained

from all of this pain?

Nothing 

But things pretty much staying the same.