Point well taken IllusionalFate.

TMK - I think your answer all comes down to YOU and YOUR heart. What do you want? Honestly, if I asked myself this way back when, life woulda been a lot simpler.

Funny you made that point, IF, b/c that long-time friend and I were actually hanging out this weekend, and she posed some obviously fake 'hypothetical' question to me about what I would do if a girl that was strictly a friend, for 4 years, gave me some 9-page letter confessing her love for me. Lol, and I thought...'we've been friends for 4 years...and...I guess I don't know if you have feelings for me?...' So I took it as her way of trying to judge MY reaction if she happened to drop a 'real' letter on me. And it never dawned on me that she might still be holding something back even after all this time. I honestly have no idea, and still don't, lol. And never will, apparently.

I dunno, I'm rambling like a baffoon, but I think you've got to go for it, 100%, otherwise, years later, those 'what-if' thought sessions will literally have you up at night wondering why you didn't 'pull the trigger'. You never know until you do, and I think the curiosity alone of what coulda been is reason enough to at least take a stab. Take a step. Anything.

Cheers. ~