Cookiecrumb Musings: Musings and Men

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Musings and Men

I began typing out my musings in a typical blog post... and then realized that dear-men letters would be a much more appropriate format for expressing part of what I'm thinking. So yes, 6 days before I enter the MTC I am writing to some of the men of my world:

Dear Workaholic,
You may act like you're a little rough around the edges, and we may give each other what borders on slightly too much crap, but I think you're all gooey on the inside and I secretly appreciate you for that. Thanks for the help. You didn't have to give it but you did, and I'm not going to forget it. Thanks for laughing at my jokes, even when they were dumb, and for teasing me mercilessly. I just need that sometimes.
Sincerely,
A not-THAT-irreverent soul

Dear Cowboy,
In spite of promises to myself not too... I have to confess I had a mini-crush on you for a week or two. Don't worry, we're good now... hope that doesn't weird you out. What can I say? You are just so darn GOOD. You make me think, laugh, and every time I left hanging out with you I found myself resolving to be a better person. I love who I am when I am with you, and the fact that I feel I can trust you with pieces of me that I don't tell other people about. Thanks for dropping everything and coming to my rescue when I needed it.
Sincerely,
I still think we think too much alike :)

Dear Superman,
You amaze me. Your confidence and energy and zest for life, in spite of the fact that you haven't had it easy. You keep the spirit close, and it's incredible to watch you. Thanks for being my friend, and for caring, and for talking to me despite the difficulty you have trusting people. People often surprise us with how amazing they are underneath, and you've helped me see that - I hope you've been able to see that in other people too. Please keep in touch -- I look forward to the day when you find what you are looking for.
Sincerely,
That friend who keeps you up way too late

Dear I'mhavingareallyhardtimethinkingofanappropriatenicknameforyou,
Um... wasn't expecting that the other night. But thanks for having the guts to talk to me. Thanks for putting up with me - and for... in your own way... even hinting that you care about me. You've always had this way of making me feel like you can see straight through me, and it's always made me nervous... so I hope you'll forgive me for those times when I wasn't as good to you and open with you as I probably should have been. I've learned a lot from you, even when our conversations were frustrating I was grateful that they pushed me to think in ways I otherwise wouldn't have. For the record, I think you are great, and you deserve to be happy. And not just the mildly content sort, but the tingly I-can't-believe-I-am-so-blessed kind of happy. I hope you find it soon.
Sincerely,
Just me

Dear Smiley,
It's been a pleasure. I can honestly say that I feel much less awkward flirting in part thanks to you. Granted... the skill will probably completely disappear while on my mission. Mind a play date/refresher course when I get back? That is assuming you are still single of course. Thanks for being a good friend and checking on me every now and again.
Sincerely,
Thanks for complimenting my calves

Dear Father,
Thanks for giving me all these friends for a season. Thanks for showing me that awesome men in this world don't come in a limited supply. Each of these men I've written to are righteous men who honor their Priesthood- and that is incredible to me. Can I please have someone similar to them at some point? And will you please bless him 'cause that poor boy is having to wait a long time for me to finish up my chores...
Sincerely,
Your daughter

Dear Prince Charming,
Sorry to keep you waiting. Please be patient a little longer... Australia needs me for 18 months. And I think I need Australia too. But after May 2014 please come find me.
Love,
Krystal

1 comment:

Carrie said...: Miss Krystal,

First of all... you lucky bum! So many wonderful guys around you. Sometimes, I'll admit, I do miss the days of single life when there were an excess of wonderfully upstanding young men all around me that I could flirt with, tease with, laugh with, and admire from a distance. But when I think of my life in the past 6 months I know that this is the better end of the deal.
Your Prince Charming is out there preparing (although he prolly doesn't know that yet and will be particularly frustrated with his failing dating scheme whilst you go away to Australia on the Lord's errand...) to become an excellent husband for you. Sure, I don't have a lot of boys around to admire and tease, but I have one that's just perfect for what I need.
I can't wait to see the ways God blesses you on the mission and I do hope our paths cross again in the future. Who knows where we'll be in 18 months, but I sure hope within reasonable driving distance. ;) If not, please plan for at least one dateless night a month for a Skype gallivant... deal?
Hehe. Love ya sweet girl.

Carrie Cluff; November 1, 2012 at 3:29 PM

Crumbs for thought

“God is eagerly waiting for the chance to answer your prayers and fulfill your dreams, just as he always has. But he can't if you don't pray, and he can't if you don't dream. In short, he can't if you don't believe.” - Jeffrey R. Holland
"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." -Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"No matter how bleak the chapter of our lives may look today, because of the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we may hope and be assured that the ending of the book of our lives will exceed our grandest expectations." - Elder Uchtdorf
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Ghandi
"Life itself is a most wonderful fairytale." -Hans Christian Anderson
“I wanted a perfect ending, now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious amiguity.” -Unknown
"Come what may and love it!" -Joseph B. Worthlin
"You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip." -Jonathan Carroll
"There should be times when you and I leave tears on our pillows out of gratitude for what God has given us." - Niel A. Maxwell
“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.” -Albert Camus
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt
“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.” –Dr. Robert Anthony
"Help others in the race of life, remember when you help someone up a mountain you are a little bit closer to the top yourself." -Jeffrey R. Holland
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more." Jules Renard
"When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us." -Helen Keller
“Love is the feeling you feel when you feel you are feeling a feeling you feel you have never felt before!” -Unkown
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Lanston Hughes
"And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unkown.' And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safe than a known way."' M. Louise Haskins
"Never suppress a generous thought." -Camilla Kimball
"God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with him as if you were the only being He had ever created. When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man or woman in the world." -C.S. Lewis
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein
"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion." -Gordon B. Hinckley
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." -G.K. Chesterton
"Hope mends shattered dreams, and makes them more beautiful than they were before."
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside of you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." -A. A. Milne
"There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one single candle." -Unkown
"All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the smallest ship, unless it gets inside. All the evil in the world, the blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in." -Unknown
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” –Maya Angelou
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstien
"I believe in myself. I do not mean this in an egotistical way. But i believe in my capacity and in your capacity to good, to make some contribution to the society of which we are a part, to grow and develop, and to do things that we may now think impossible... I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good." -Gordon B. Hinckley
"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it." Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Life is like an echo or a mirror: we get out of it what we put in." -Unknown
"I ran up the door, and shut my stairs. I said my pajamas, and put on my prayers. I turned off my bed, and jumped into my light, and all because he kissed my goodnight!" -Unkown
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." T.E. Lawrence
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -Winston Churchill
"A sure testimony is the most valuable possesion a person can have. It gives him the knowledge, the hope, and assurance that he himself can, through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel, become a partaker of all the promised blessings." -Marion G. Romney
"Never be afraid to trust an unkown future to a known God." -Corrie Ten Boom
“There is something you must always remember… you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think… but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” ~Winnie the Pooh
"If you judge people you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." -Teilhard de Chardin
"There is no curse or evil spell, that’s worse than one we give ourselves. There is no sorcerer as cruel as the proud angry fool. And yet we cry “life isn’t fair,” beneath our cries the truth is there, the power that will break the spell we should know, very well, is locked within ourselves." -Rigoletto
"All of our dreams can come true, if only we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." -Thomas Carlyle
"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh!' he whistpered. 'Yes, Piglet?' 'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.' " -A.A. Milne
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone. The things you do for others remain as your legacy.” -H. David Burton
"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power." -Ezra Taft Benson
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
"Make a motto in life, always try to assist someone to carry his burden. The true key to happiness in life is to labor for the happiness of others." -Heber J. Grant
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." -Ralph waldo Emerson
"I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind. But I never have yet felt a tinge of regret for being a little too kind."
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll end up among the stars!"
"Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life has its share of some fear and some failure. Sometimes things fall short, don't quite measure up. Sometimes in both personal and public life, we are seemingly left without strength to go on. Sometimes people fail us, or economies and circumstances fail us, and life with its hardship and heartache can leave us feeling very alone. But when such difficult moments come to us, I testify that there is one thing which will never, ever fail us. One thing alone will stand the test of all time, of all tribulation, all trouble, and all transgression. One thing never faileth-- and that is the pure love of Christ." -Jeffrey R. Holland
"Hope is the dream of a waking man." French Proverb
"Be one who nutures and builds. Be one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart, who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them." -Marvin J. Ashton
"You shouldn't compare yourself to others; they are more screwed up than you think."
"Genuis is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." Thomas Edison
"In one corner of the world squatted a sullen, sulking, friendless darkness. Suddenly a tiny light appeared. It was very small but it was a light. Someone had put it there. It just stood there and sent out its rays. A passerby remarked to the light: "Don't you think you would be of more use somewhere else and not in this God-forsaken corner?" "Not really," said the little light. "I shine because I am a light. And because I shine, I am a light. I don't shine in order to be seen, but so that others could see in the dark." When the gloomy darkness heard this, it gritted its teeth and full of fury, tried to put out the light. But the gigantic darkness was powerless against this tiny light that wanted to shine." -Unknown
"Smile, even when you're sad. You never know who may be falling in love with your smile."
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need more fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all." -Thich Nhat Hanh
"Success is becoming the best that is in you." Linda Louise Elsinger
"Wouldn't it be nice if we looked at people and jellybeans and liked them all? And didn't just pick out the pretty and smart people or the red and black beans, but loved them all for what they are?"
"You can be wise and happy, or stupid and miserable. The choice is yours." -Gordon B. Hinckley
"You know you're in love when you can't sleep... because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss
"Some people pray for mountains to be removed, what they need is the courage to climb them."
"One small good deed is infinitely better than the greatest intention."
"No matter if they stop and stare. No person, ever, anywhere, can make me feel that what they see is all there really is to me." Karen Beaumont
"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -John A. Shedd
"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." -Johann Wolfgang Goeth
"We could learn a lot from crayons: some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors... but they all have to learn to live in the same box."
"Fly. If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But whatever you do, keep on moving."