There is this girl I used to work with whom I have loved for four and a half years. It reached the peak of "infatuation" last August when I finally let it be known how I felt for her. She didn't take it well. But instead f telling me she didn't feel that way about me, she told me to wait and maybe we'd date later. Stupid me I believed her and over the course of the next 50 weeks I became more and more infatuated with her. To the point I was hoping it was just a crush. But it has not gone away in over 4 years.
I ended up alienating her because I was too open with my feelings for her, telling everyone around me how much I loved her, all except her. Eventually it culminated with an ill conceived hand written note sealed in an envelope handed to her with hopes of her reading it and knowing how I felt after all that. She never read it. Presumably threw it away because I asked for it back and she said she didn't have it anymore. She said "I'm not ready, okay?? We're friends!"
After this incident we went back to being friends. So it would seem. But it wasn't like it used to be. I never wanted to be friends. I wanted more, ever since I first met her. But back then I wasn't the guy I am now. I had no experience in the asking out part.
We were best of friends for 3 years until that "peak". The last two years consisted of me neglecting my own work duties just to be near her, talk with her, look at her. I would and did anything for her. Whatever she asked. Then she broke my heart and disappeared. We both left the company the same day. She went to another store chain. I went to unemployment. I saw her one time the next week when I heard that the store we worked in wanted me back. I told her that and she said "Don't come back. They'll just treat you the same as before." This was the first time I didn't do what she asked. I did come back. Albeit for five days before quitting again, but still, I left the store in the first place because of her. And came back to spite her. Only to leave again. (She doesn't even know I came back. I was only there for five days.)
I saw her once again after leaving the second time. But she did not see me. She was buying her stuff and I was at the service desk buying mine. As she left I turned to her and said "Bye!" to get her attention. She turned quickly, smiled and said "Bye!" back. And that was it.
Everyone was on my side. Except her. Apparently I inadvertently had the whole store and her own family on her case. Which I did not mean to do. Which brought on the whole "The more people bug me, the more pissed off I get. I'm not ready!" thing. It was that moment I realized what I had done. I had loved her so much I killed our friendship.
So after we went our separate ways (Though it's hard to not be close when she lives 1000 feet away and works right in town. Yet I still never see her.) I went back to trying to forget about her.
Until I got my new job. And fate instilled upon me the worse thing that ever could happen. They gave me the clock number that she used to have at our old job. So now whenever I work I am forced to remember her. I am forever clock 122. Out of all the numbers I could have had, they gave me HERS. At a completely new job.
I told a few people this and most of them say it's a sign. Including her grandmother.
A sign of what? That I'm supposed to do something? That I need to find her again? Or that I am never allowed to forget her? Ever?
Signs suck if there's no instructions attached.
I sympathize with the original poster. There were and still are times that I would look at her, especially in her street "Day off" clothes. Jeans and a really nice shirt, and would literally break down because I couldn't be with her. She has brought me to tears quite a few times. And I rarely tear up over anything. Not even when my dog died. I'm talking about "Jurassic Bark" style tears. But multiplied by a hundred.
I remember the first night, that August when I told her and she told me "Maybe later". I literally sat in my car in the parking lot with my face buried in my hands tears flowing like Niagra Falls. I finally got my eyes cleared and drove home. Walked into the house and sat on the couch lifeless unmoving for an hour until dad came home and I told him.
50 weeks later I actually started driving home before I started to feel the water works coming. I barely made it into my driveway. This is what she does to me. No one else does this to me. No one!
Your girl problem is nothing compared to mine. All of them.