posted August 11, 2013 06:12 AM
Thank you very much, Andstuff.
Your reading was telling much more than I expected, and yes it resonates.
Maybe I am sounding majorly naive, but he is a performer. So of course there is this distance, there has to be.
Just he likes connecting to people so much, he rarely stays on his pedestal or even on stage.
He managed to establish these semiprofessional/semiprivate concerts/ jam sessions, which he very much makes his playground.
Now why would he pay attention to me, right?
Well we had a chat once, but from that point on it was pretty much me who was trying to keep the distance. BECAUSE he is a performer, and this is just silly for a woman my age - my mind sais.
And I feel a little embarassed, how strongly I instinctually react to him (though I am not really letting it shows. lol).
From his side, well, he is a performer, as I said.
He still manages to throw me off balance now and then. I don`t think he remembers our chat, or recognizes me in any way, but he did manage to push or pull me into some sort of communicating situation in a show, because if the performer of the evenings comes down of stage, marches straight towards you, kneels down beside you, pushing a microphone into your direction and starts talking and questioning you, you can`t really stay silent without being endlessly rude, right?
There have been other occasions, with a lot of glancing and staring, and then again, not so obvious ones, (and why does he always have to pop up in my immediate physical proximity?) and I guess these would have been good opportunities to pull my head out of the sand.
Even if it is just part of the show, why not play along?
But for very personal reasons I wasn`t able to do that, and must have come across as the most defensive b*tch walking the earth.
Still I reflected on this, my behaviour, why I can`t react normally to him (I apparently *CAN* talk normally with some of the other members of his band, as it turned out. lol).
From his side though, well, my head clearly tells me, why would he notice me? He is the one on stage, being used to be the centre of attention. Why would he pay attention to me?
Anyway, since I have this very complicated inner instinctual response to him, it would be nice to know that I am not TOTALLY deluding myself, and that, even though it is still just a professional-performer-audience-thing, that there`s just a ltitle bit real spark to it.
But bottom line is, this weird thing got me thinking about myself real hard, and also thinking bout how I have been trying to hide away behind my overweight, taking myself out of the game so to speak, and I was surprised to find out two things: 1. it didn`t work with him, he still saw me
2. I regretted being that way, and wanted to get rid of all these defenses, which actually were keeping me from living the life I really want to live, to express myself as the person that apparently still is inside of me, and just take the risk to take off my invisibility cloak now and then.
Well, I think that is process of transformation I am currently going through (though should have done that so much sooner), and I am actually surprised how easy it is to shed weight. Well not easy, but I would have thought it would be harder; instead I feel lighter everyday (and not only in terms of weight);
In a way meeting him put this in motion, like a wake-up-call or something like that, I gues.
Yes I admit, it sounds stupid.