h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello can I introduce myself? Well actually I am not very good at that as you will see from my space but I wanted to stop by. I am not quite sure how I got to your space, but I see you have met some great people that I know so I guess it was via them!

I read your journal entry about days with fascination and interest and felt a real sense of knowing exactly what you mean. I came to h2g2 to learn to write, but have not really done much of that yet! It is all rather overwhelmingly vast to start with and it takes a while to find the people who you connect with – and believe me they are out there. I have only been here a few months and have met some incredible people and feel I have made some great friends, although I have never met any of them. Intimacy grows, and far quicker here than in real life, just give people a chance to find you! For what it is worth, I would recommend follow your instinct, click on things that look interesting and see where you end up and just jump in! Sometimes it will not be the ‘right’ place for you ‘right’ now, but other times it will work. You often meet the real person rather than their social front. I find that it is more a meeting of minds.

I feel the need to talk to you – I enjoy reflection and exploration of our life journey, understanding others too. Could this be the kind of connection you are looking for?

Some of the people I have met here make me laugh, my new years resolution was to laugh more and enjoy this experience we call life. I am laughing more this year but there have been lots of tears along the way too!

Others have really made me think. I share your dilemma regarding being on my own benefiting my spiritual growth and needing to feel that ‘knowing that there is someone in your life’. I long for that deep intimate connection. I believe that people come into our lives for a reason, we meet (or come across) people who are going to help us with our personal spiritual journey.

Is it too much to hope that we will meet (and recognise that we have met) someone with whom we can make that intimate connection and who allow us to discover and be ourselves, helping us along our journey?

Sorry about the typing - that will teach me to cut and paste from word! The numbers are mostly - and ' marks

Hi Lighthouse Girl - that sounds very formal so I'll call you Light for short. Well I must admit I've looked at your home page a few times now and I too have felt drawn to contact you. I've also come across you in a number of different conversations I've been lurking in (I think that is the right description). You are right I seem to have met some great people already eg Mina, Eeyore, bornonaugust20 (my brothers birthday!)Galaxy Babe to name but a few.

For some time now I have been longing, that is actually a very descriptive but accurate word, I have been longing to make sense of the very strong feelings I have about life in general but people specifically. I seem to get along very well with women, I'm understandably very happy about that, and love to share my feelings with them and to listen as they share with me. In truth it's the only time I feel really alive, yet there is something missing, don't get me wrong I love my female friends but I long (that word again)to be in a relationship and really, really communicate with a woman, please don't think I'm just a lonely heart looking for love, I'm much much more than that, I'm looking for a Soul connection.

There is a balance required of course, I always try and work on three areas of my life Physical, Intellectual and Spiritual, having said this I also like to have a laugh. I am right at this moment feeling an overwhelming sense of connection to you, it's a bit scary but i've just re-read some of the stuff (this is a technical term for parts of your reply ..lol) you wrote on contacting me and I felt a strange affinity, a knowing that we had met before, I'm sorry that sounds over the top, if not met before (in a previous life) then certainly share similar aspirations. A meeting of minds ? yes I find that aspect sooooo stimulating but just as importantly a meeting of Souls. Your words resonated within me, and I wholeheartedly agree people come into our lives for a reason.

I could go on forever, I would love to ask you lots of questions, to dance with your Soul, to hear about your Hopes and Dreams, listen to your views on Spirituality, wonder what books you have read, to cement this connection. As a famous singer once said "I feel too much, I fall too hard" apologies in advance, if you chose to continue with this connection you will help me to progress spiritually and I you. After all we are all mirrors and each mirror we gaze into reflects the parts of us that we are needing to be aware of, to heal.

It's night time 9 pm and a new moon is shining here (New Zealand) my emotions are always hightened during this time. I hope you will write again soon so we can begin our journey, our paths have crossed and we obviously have something to share with each other, I am eager to begin.

Hi there Skelligsbro

Calling me Light is just fine, as you say Lighthouse Girl is far too formal - there is a story behind the name, as I guess there is for everyone!

This is just going to be a brief response - not common for me as I am sure you will discover!

I want to continue to persue this connection - the resonance is huge and I feel there is a lot to explore together. I am looking forward to it.

I do however think we need to consider time and place - I am at work now so can't craft the response I want to and I think some of the stuff we will share may be better shared away from a public forum like this. Light and I are the same person, Light is just less shy, but I like the annonymity. Light also gets involved in role plays where the realms of the normal are removed.

I guess what I am trying to say is that a sole to sole connection is a more private thing and maybe we should consider email. Let me know what you think. (sorry I am not normally that forward!)

I dont know why but I would not be surprised (and I have not checked up on this) but I feel you and 20/8 should talk some too.

I should probably appologise for my spelling - as you may have discovered I am dyslexic. Somehow I am not sure I really need to, but just in case sound out the words and you will catch me up.

This feeling of connection is so strange - so strong. I feel there is a lot to share but a lot we already know. No an affinity or previous life meeting does not sound over the top. I dont know why, but I know we will enjoy the journey, laugh a lot, grow a lot and who knows possibly cry a lot too. Let the dance together begin ...

What I planned to say was that I would respond properly later! I still will.

So much for being brief

More later

Light

I have been looking forward to writing to you more ever since lunch time today, yet now I find myself sat here and not knowing what to say or where to start.

I guess it is early morning with you now, I wonder if you are even awake as I write this. Its been quite a long day for me!

You mentioned that you had visited my space - I wonder what took you there.

Light has a lot more luck with b/friends than I do! No I am not just a lonely heart looking for love either. Yes I long (and what a great word that is) for that special connection, but I also want so much else from my life. I want to explore life, understanding and learning as much as I can along the way. I want to be able to say I really have lived, not just shown up.

Balance is a whole big topic in itself - and a great one. Lets explore that one too. I think of life as a kind of spiral spinning top, with different aspects around the axis. If we grow one aspect too strongly or spend all our time in one section how can the top keep spinning and growing outwards?

I dont find your assertions about some kind of existing connection over the top - it feels that way to me, I am not saying I unerstand it by a long shot, but I feel it there.

I would love to hear your questions and I will do my best to answer them, but with the previso that this may not be the place. Sometimes its hard to explain some things in writing but I will do my best During this kind of exploration ideas and thoughts often come out in a half evolved way and I would hate to hurt someone who may stumble across them out of context and see themselves. We must choose out words with care as they can never be unsaid. This is even more true in the written word. If anything I say does not make sense or seems jarring please ask me about it - its probably a language thing.

Its about 11pm here, my cat has just gone up to bed and I should follow him soon. Still i am not in the office in the morning so I could stay on line a little longer - did anyone warn you how addictive this place is?

Anyway I look forward to talking to you some more,

Light

Hi Light - get it ? highlight ?, well yes it is actually, receiving your replies are highlights for me. I am inspired to write, I wrote my last journal entry after thinking about some of the things you said. I have this surge of enthusiasm that makes me want to ask you everything now, but I know the beauty of patience and anticipation.

I agree about sharing in a more comfortable environment, I'm ok with h2g2 but i feel our dance will take us to places that will require quiet contemplation and / or space for reflection. Also and most importantly a place of safety and privacy. (To any other journeymen and women reading this please don't feel excluded if you feel drawn to respond it's probably for a very good reason.)

So Light I'm keen ? no eager to get started, our first discussions are overdue, our first dance is about to start, and with excitement and some trepidation he takes her hand and leads her to ...... his e-mail address [email protected]

The time difference should work in our favour actually, the space it creates for reflection and contemplation prior to responding will I'm sure allow for considered and meaningful communication.

Hope you had a nice sleep, I look forward to hearing from you

You got mail!

Can I echo the message to anyone else coming across this thread! If you are here and feel the need to talk, please do. I look forward to hearing from you.

I subscribe to a weekly quotation service. I wanted to share this weeks quotes with you

'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we do' Confucius

'Patience and time do more than strength or passion' Jean de Lafontaine

'Noting valuable can be lost by taking time' Abraham Lincon

Found myself recalling our conversations today