Closeness...

Have you ever wanted to be closer to someone you love, and given what is happening or going to happen, you think it is finally the time?

And then the event occurs, and you realize what you'd hoped for and thought would happen, didn't?

In fact, the opposite occurred; the changes only enlarged the differences.

Maybe you even misunderstood comments about wanting things to be different, so you gave advice that would have helped the change, but it turned out to be completely wrong.

Sometimes people say they want something, and we may think that means they WANT it...as in, willing to do anything to make it happen.  However, what some people are saying when they say they want something is actually this: "All things remaining as they are, I want 'that'."

Clearly, these ideas of wanting are very different.

Lesson learned: know your audience.

I should have gotten that from my environmental interpretation class years ago.