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		<description><![CDATA[this would be my first blog, so i feel i must introduce myself.  I am a 29 year old gal working as an acupuncturist &#8211; which is truely my vocation and unfortunately selling my soul by working in a call centre also. I am unsure what i want to talk about on here, and think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=explorationoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3038098&amp;post=3&amp;subd=explorationoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this would be my first blog, so i feel i must introduce myself.  I am a 29 year old gal working as an acupuncturist &#8211; which is truely my vocation and unfortunately selling my soul by working in a call centre also.</p>
<p>I am unsure what i want to talk about on here, and think it will vary hugely.</p>
<p>i love that it doesnt matter what i write, that i have no one to impress or  embarrass or any other such negative repercussions.</p>
<p>you may also notice that i cant spell - and frankly cant be bothered with spell check.</p>
<p>Life is a funny old thing, we are hear but for a millisecond in the scheme of things, and although we like to think we matter -</p>
<p>and i know i improve peoples lifes through my wonderful, mysterious delightful therapy - deep deep down, it doesnt matter</p>
<p>that is nt to say i dont love life, i do! i love being with my friends, i love debating, judging, discussing,   gossiping, observiing, analysing, oh and occasionally listening, to others and discovering life in all its glorious weirdness.</p>
<p>i have recently been more able to step back from life and to observe it - to appreciate what it is doing to me, how its shaping me,</p>
<p>encouraging me, pushing me into clearer and clearer self awareness.</p>
<p>take my acpuncture for 1, if i hadnt done badly at my 1st degree, getting a 2 2 (which in the specialisation i wanted, meant id completely wasted my time)</p>
<p>and had my heart broken, i wouldnt have run off to south korea, and therefore found the wonder that is acupuncture.</p>
<p>i fully intend to use this as a tool to verbalise my thoughts, to allow me complete freedom of expression, I am a self conscious beast in life, and</p>
<p>wouldnt dream of sharing with friends and family all my thoughts - so basically a diary - one that cant be linked to me</p>
<p>so no nasty big brothers (not that i have one) can steel it and share with our peers - much to my humiliation.</p>
<p>i&#8217;ve always found peoples thoughts to be interesting, esp when they are essentially observations of the world</p>
<p>take for instance an &#8217;ex&#8217; friend of mine.  we had been essentially best mates for going on 13 years, when and i fully admit randomly i fell for a gal, having previously considered myself strictly a breeder even i was surprised by my turnaround.  Anyway, this &#8216;friend&#8217; no longer speaks to me, even 2 years on&#8230; due to not being able to &#8220;follow me down the path i was now taking&#8221;.  i was truely takenaback by that comment &#8211; what pathwas i heading down?? one of happiness, one of smiles.  the only difference i see between a hetro and homo rel is that of the physical ability to naturally have children &#8211; as one who has never wanted children of her own, it seemed bizarre that i was now on a different path.  i would love to talk to her sometime &#8211; to find out what she means &#8211; how its so different, how she couldnt be happy that i was finally happy.</p>
<p>2 years on, i m no longer with that wonderful, sexy woman who opened my eyes to a WHOLE nother me &#8211; one where iv realised i do actually FANCY girls &#8211; like actually lust after &#8211; not something i ever remember having with guys. but thats not to say i dont enjoy male company, nor is it to say i will never again be with a man</p>
<p>how i feel at the moment is that i fancy girls, but enjoy sex with both &#8211; not at the same time mind, not quite got my head round that idea as yet -</p>
<p>what does amaze me &#8211; and has lead to many a conversation with my flatmates/friendwho are part of the &#8216;scene&#8217; is how closed minded they are.  it was always an issue for my ex that i had previously been with guys, she couldnt understandthat i could enjoy her physically as much as i could a man, &#8211; i know lesbians with an almost phobia of bisexuals &#8211; why does anyone have to categorise their sexuality &#8211; surely it is the person one is attracted to, not just their equipment?</p>
<p>i have often been referred to as a &#8217;lipstick lesbian&#8217; because i wear a bit of make up and even a skirt occasionally, im more often mistaken for a &#8217;fag hag&#8217; because</p>
<p>i spend time in the company of gay men</p>
<p>stereotyping/catorgising is an amazing thing, and i know i do it - one of my favorite expressions is a bull dyke, not that id ever use it to someones face</p>
<p>but quite why we need to categorise is what intrigues me - its what keeps me seperate from the whole world.  I look at my friends, aquaintences and colleagues, thinking i dont fit in there - i dont belong</p>
<p>and it can be over something as simple as not liking the same music as them - why i feel that i must like everything my friends like to &#8217;belong&#8217; to that group fancinates and frustrates me.</p>
<p>it leaves me feeling like an outcast, ostracized, alone and unlovable.  however, ask any of my friends, and i have, they seem to think im the life and soul of the party, getting on with anyone and everyone, always busy, always popular.</p>
<p>but i have also been told i seem aloof, distant -  its a funny old world - how i can seem friendly and distant at the same time</p>
<p>it makes me very curious as to what makes me seem distant - i overheard 2 friends talking abut me one day - one of whom i felt i had shared my soul with - saying i was distant and hard to figure out</p>
<p>perhaps when i shared my soul, my darkest secrets with her she thought it was something i shared with everyone - i am aware that i trivialise things cos i dont want pity.</p>
<p>my most recent gf said she saw straight through my bullshit - and i think she did, well at least bits of it - and it scared me, made me run away,</p>
<p>treated her badly, kept her at arms length -</p>
<p>does everyone have problems with trust and commitment  - not necessarily in a sexual relationship, but with all -</p>
<p>i think thats what is my major flaw in life - inability to trust/open up - my homework for tonight is to work on that me thinks</p>
<p>anyhoo</p>
<p>enough ramblings for one sunday evening</p>
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