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Hm. Saw Twilight again tonight for the lulz. That movie's so hard epic fail, it's hard to believe. Went with Chris, though, the lad who's been trying to flirt with me for the last few weeks.
Or so I think. He hints at it too damn much for me to be imagining it, doesn't he?
Regardless, the way I deal (or, rather, don't deal) with other people really worries me. He left and I ought to have given him a hug or something goodbye, but I just said, "Oh, bye." He was a bit affronted, or so he said, so I gushed something theatrical about missing him for the next twenty or so hours we'd be apart (D&D tomorrow at his house).
But maybe I'm just over thinking everything. Maybe I just need to settle down and let myself say what I feel like saying.
Then again, maybe that would land me in a world of massive HURT.

Feh. Me doing something stupid. Unprecedented.

But this journal isn't just for me to chat about relationship woes. We had another interesting chat in World Religions today, regarding how to handle dangerous situations. Our teacher read us a story about a woman whose house was broken into (she lived alone). The robber/rapist/whatever you'd like to label him came to her room, and she eventually talked him out of doing anything rash and sleeping downstairs for the night; the next morning, they ate breakfast together, she gave him some sheets, and he left her house.
What amazes me is that she did this simply by talking to him or, as my teacher suggested, helping him realize that she was a person and she had value other than just some random woman whose house he was breaking into. It's shocking, but this train of thought actually makes sense to me. There's no need for any sort of conflict in the world as long as others know you are worth something, that you're connected to them somehow. Once you know that someone is a real human being with value, they can't hurt you.
Unless they're a sociopath, and the day a sociopath becomes a powerful world leader, we're screwed.

Then again, how have we not discovered this before? Is it such a foreign idea for humans to try to be nice to each other, instead of jumping down each others' throats? Apparently so. Looking at our history is a depressing experience for me. We've had more than our fair share of wars and invasions and the like. It's almost as if we're a totally selfish race that only love material things and ourselves.

I can only hope it gets better from here.