connections = weakness?

have you met someone who you connect with so much that when they're upset you feel it. your day is turned. have you shared in someone's happiness and truly felt their joy?

i do this too much. the term living vicariously thru others takes on other meaning when ithink about myself sometimes. i can't figure out whether i just really connect with people (one or two way) or whether im just weak and my own emotion is negligent. i know im not always hollow and that i have my own independent thoughts/feelings/etc...but the affect that those close to me have on me is starting to worry me.

what's worse is when the other party has no idea. which is true 90% of the time b/c if u know me...well u know.

no more diary-style entries after this. i promise.

Missing You

This month's:
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay

Last month's lesson:
I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years