For some reason, I've grown up with this idea that desiring intimacy of any kind -- physical or emotional -- from another person is strange and wrong. As I'm learning how deeply wrong this is, I'm also learning that there are some people with whom I desire intimacy, from whom I can never, ever get it. Mostly because, for whatever reason, they won't give it to me.

I think this is bullshit.

I also think said people are scared, whether they know it or not. As scared as I am, if not more. It's frustrating, being in a place where I finally have the guts to stand up and declare what I think I want, only to be met with silence. It makes me want to scream, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE?

But really now: what have we got to lose?