Friday, 28 October 2011

Life and the Romantic: What Do You Do?

What do you do with a woman who brings light into your life, and then flicks the switch off? What do you do with a woman who swamps you with colour, and then flings mud in your eye? What do you do with a woman who sets your adrenalin racing, and then awakens your demon? What do you do with a woman who thrills and disappoints alternately, and whom you know you also disappoint? What do you do when you’ve willingly accepted the pain of saying ‘enough’s enough, goodbye’ several times already, but she keeps coming back and you still can’t resist the challenge? What do you do with a woman whose actions seem to speak differently than her words?

And what do you do about the fight that’s going on inside you between the young, optimistic idealist and the middle aged man who’s striving for realism, especially since you know that you’re never going to meet this person and, even if you did, there’s no way you could be anything other than platonic acquaintances?

What do you do, eh? What?

Give up? Carry on riding the rollercoaster until you’re ready to pass out? Jump from a high building and hope you die before you feel the pain?

OK, the last option is a bit melodramatic, but try putting the following four characteristics into one person and see what you get:

Romantic
Idealist
Optimist
HSP

Oh, and you can add the adjectives Impulsive, Frank and Sincere, just for good measure.

The result can be a bastard at times, believe me. And I’m aware that I’m probably wearing far too much on my sleeve here, but frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn. This has to be expressed somewhere.

I finished trimming the biggest and toughest of my hedges today. There; that makes everything all right again.

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