decisions, decisions

I'm open to suggestions. I have to decide what to do about a potential visit to see a friend of mine. He lives in CA and I in VA, so this is a long-distance trip over which I would be flying. There is by no means nothing wrong with flying. It is the superb luxury. Walking into that tiny enclosed space with all those other cozy passengers -- there's nothing better! There is even a convenient bathroom that has lately been filled with soap that actually smells good. Last I checked that had a scent from Bath'N Body Works to use as hand soap. Once there was some lotion as well. How can we complain when we have airplane bathrooms with these things? How can we complain when we're pissing (or ...) into a pretend toilet. What we all know but don't want to admit is that we are suspended in the air right now. There is no toilet use. Anything we let out is just flying out the bottom of this airplane and probably smacking some poor unsuspecting bird in its face, or on the top of its head more likely.

Back to the decision that I have to make. It has to be made before Friday because that is my day of departure. I want to see this friend of mine because he is open, kind, intelligent, very funny, and handsome in kind of a Adam Sandler sort of way. By that I mean a sweet sort of sexy - the kind of guy you want to lay back and relax with.

Now the only thing getting in the way between me and him is my parents. They question the safeness of this potential trip with me being a single female traveler and all. I am young, they say, (young compared to who, you, my parents? well of course.) and it would put me into a position that may turn out being unpleasant. But isn't that how we learn to avoid those unpleasant situations in the future: by being put into those very positions by free choice? Regardless, nothing unpleasant is going to happen to me on this trip. He's a great guy and we want to see each other. It should be no more complex than that.

But it is because my parents have threated not allowing me to return to where I go to college for fear that my ability to make safe decisions regarding my humanness would be left questioned after such actions were taken. I'm sure just about everyone in the world can relate to this situation, but that's not the point. The point is something I am unsure of.