When there’s light at
the end of the tunnel, the tunnel gets lighter.
Did I really say that? ‘Yes,’ confirmed my ex. Well, it's probably no worse than some of the words of wisdom people post to blogs, but it’s
fortunate that when you’re on the phone nobody can see you blush.
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And do you know what really irks me? You tell somebody how
you feel about something, and they reply dismissively ‘Oh, don’t be silly. You
shouldn’t think that way.’ So you reply with something succinct and logical, like: ‘I don’t think that way. That’s how I feel. They’re not the
same thing.’ And they look surprised – or maybe continue to express a
dismissive air – because it hasn’t occurred to them that while the reasoning
faculty makes it relatively easy to alter the way you think, altering the way
you feel is considerably more difficult, or maybe even impossible, because the
way you feel doesn’t come from the reasoning faculty.
And they don’t even raise a blush, so you have to give them
up for dead because they’re too lacking in fundamental nous to bother with.
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