WHAT IS LOVE?
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
Today a boy asked me out on a date.
thatonechickmary:
I told my mother this, and she asked what I said and, if I wanted to go or not, and yadda yadda.
Then she said, “Well, I feel bad for that boy.”. Confused I asked why.
She said, “because you’re not always the nicest person. I mean, the poor boy likes you, and you’ll just keep rejecting him in that cruel way that you do. I just feel bad he’s gonna have to go through the effort just to get shot down. Plus, you can be MEAN.”
Now, I kinda feel bad for him too. I mean, I’m not rude, I just don’t say yes. I don’t want a boyfriend, I don’t really want anything to do with liking guys right now. But, he’ll get over me before the school year ends, and one day I’ll hear, “Gross, man you liked Mary and thought she was hot?!”, “Yeah, man I know. It was awful. I regret every moment of it.”
It always happens that way. Oh, well. Life is life, no matter how sad and pathetic it is, it’s life and I’m forced to live it. But someday it’ll end, and it scares me a little, but yet I’m ready for it.
SERIOUSLY.
You need to STOP putting yourself down.
You are not ugly.
Your beautiful.(:
