Relationships 101
February 9th, 2008 by Luke
They’re bullshit. Alright I am only angry. They can be good…I’m told; however, when I look back on them all, I only remember all the crap. Except for that time when I was curled up on the couch watching Love Actually 4 days before Christmas, and I thought, “Damn, sure would be nice if someone else were here.” We’ll keep that between us, though, and pretend I was actually watching Love Actually by myself (it was on cable…and I swear there wasn’t anything on).
Regardless, the one thing you need to understand in order to make any sense of this blog, is that I recently sort of started dating and then un-dating a friend of mine. It really moved that quick. It was like 0-15 MPH then back to zero again…in a month. I’m mostly annoyed though because anyone who has known me for any length of time knows that prior to this I had taken sabbatical from dating altogether. So to get pulled off furlough in order to deal with a half-assed excuse for “seeing someone” is silly. What it ended up doing was causing me to realize that it’s a pain in the ass being a cynical romantic.
That’s not an oxymoron, by the way. You see, deep down, I have hope that things work out while at the same time knowing they won’t. I’m pretty much only like this when it comes to romance and politics though. I guess I got a great song out of the whole mess (at least there’s that). It’s a duet. I haven’t ever written one of those before. I’ll be giving it a grand reveal at my show in a couple days. The lovely Misty Boyce will be helping out with this one.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
you don’t know me and, in the same respect, I have no idea who you are but I felt that I must comment on your blog entry about romance because … well … because I thought I would share my observation on how strange this life is.
recently I began working at this place and, just this past saturday night, I, for the first time, went out for drinks with some of my female co-workers. mainly due to that night of slight intoxication, one of the females and myself have began to develop a bond which led her to initiate discussion with me, after work today, about her love life. apparently, this intern, only a couple of years younger than herself, had recently given her a leather-bound notebook which had handwritten in it, among other things, “you can’t step in the same stream twice”. she told me she had heard that quote before, but couldn’t remember where, and it was one of her favorite quotes. thinking of my day at work, which I often find myself doing during the evening after I have been home for a while, I thought of that quote and decided to google it so tomorrow I could tell her where it came from. the link that I chose was to your website and, more specifically, to your blog. since your relationship blog is the first one on that page it, obviously, caught my eye and I began to read. “how truly bizarre”, I thought to myself; not because of your words but because that was almost the EXACT conversation I was having with that girl today after work … exact minus the reference to ‘Love Actually’, which affected me in a different way, emotionally, but that is a different story for a different day. I had even said, to the aforementioned girl, that I was on sabbatical from relationships this year … my exact words … it, actually, was my new year’s resolution
I don’t know if you have ever read ‘The Celestine Prophecy’, but the one thing, if nothing else, that I took from that book is that there is no such thing as coincidences. it was a long list of events that occurred in order for me to have read your blog tonight and, if even one of those events had been different, I would not be writing this. subscribing to the line of thinking in ‘The Celestine Prophecy’, there is something to be learned and that is why this “coincidence” occurred. I think i’ll just check back once and a while to see if you’ve come up with “the answer” to these relationship conundrums as I don’t foresee myself as being the keeper of that untapped knowledge.
In the meantime, I wish you luck with all of your endeavors, as well as your personal journey.
leann.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hey Lukey…I was gonna say that love actually is hell and I once liked this guy who lived in London - and we had this whole whirlwind-romance thing…anyways I went to visit him and of course it went to shit and I ended up spending like $30 dollars watching Love - f*ing - actually in a theater - alone in London - twice. That’s what I was gonna say…I was also gonna make a joke about how I was the friend you started dating - but then this girl had to go and bring-it so all I’m saying now is find this chick Leann she’s awesome. xo h.