In the Wood

Tigger and Eeyore have spent years running around the Hundred Acre Wood together as best friends. They have a lot in common and have a blast together but for several reasons their relationship has never gone further then friendship. Tigger has always believed that there was something special between them. A level of trust, compassion, and honesty that comes only with a few friendships.

Its only a matter of time before Tigger starts questioning. They have always been a little bit more then friends. Why not go there? Lets see, take the jump. They have always gotten along brilliantly and relationships based in friendship are the ones that tend to last. And Tigger thinks that maybe this is our time. Maybe there has always been something more but she was too blind to see it. Maybe, just maybe, they could be something great.

She wasn't asking marriage or commitment but simply an open heart and a progression of something that had already been started. And the answer was no. After all they have been through. After all the laughter, tears, and dreaming, Eeyore had no desire to give it even an inkling of a try. Eeyore was being honest, you must give him credit for that. Tigger, oh Tigger, the foolish eternal optimist was like a child with her eyes shut and fingers in her ears. No was not the answer she wanted to hear. What devastated Tigger most of all was that Eeyore was simply unwilling to try.

Tigger was foolish to have any hope in the first place. They are so different. Tigger: bouncy, jovial, outgoing and energetic. Eeyore: quiet, lonesome, reclusive, and always loosing that DAMN TAIL. Can you imagine? Tigger and Eeyore settling down in Eeyore’s 3 post tent. Tigger's perpetual pleasant liveliness would surely drive Eeyore mad. Tigger would eventually give up trying to break through the impenatrable emotionless fortress surrounding Eeyore. And giving up on anything is the beginning of the end. Do they wait, hope, pray for each other to change or call a spade a spade? Asking each other to change, is asking too much.

Now Tigger is having a hard time seeing friendship in Eeyore. There are only so many times you can be hurt before you realize that they just don’t have your best interest in their hearts, which every true friend should. Losing a lover is one thing but losing a friend that has been woven deep into the fabric of ones heart is a far deeper cut. Tigger is trying to rebound, bounce back and just can't. This new world is strange, untrue, and ominous. Tigger woke up one morning to find that the world had turned upside down and she is learning to walk all over again.

Maybe Eeyore was right to stop it before it started. Whether now or later, it was only a matter of time before they arrived at the same conclusion. But just because Eeyore might have been right doesn't make it hurt less.

My Piglet, I hope that maybe this will help to put some pieces of your puzzle together when you are searching. Because you might not be now but eventually you will want to know.