Don't Fall For your Brain...or your heart.
No one is reliable, not even, especially not your own anatomy.
"Just because you can't say something doesn't mean you don't want to, you can want to very much. You can be with a person and be happy with them and not love them. And you can love somebody and not want to be with them. You don't need to love someone to want them. Now that's frustrating, when what your brain tells you you want and what you actually want don't match up. It’s exhausting. And, well, it’s complicated. But that's life. And life... sucks."
I disagree, life doesn't suck, it just has an odd sense of humor. And let's face it, these days, any humor is better than no humor. Like how you are probably getting a kick out of my incessantly quoting Grey's Anatomy. My brain tells me the show is probably headed for suckage, but it's so suckingly good.
PS. I have come to the conclusion that nobody has any grasp over the meaning of the word love, so people should stop throwing it around like it has any significance. I hope in this lifetime (and the next) I will not find myself pathetically slobbering that word on a poor defenseless human being. It is perhaps the most meaningless word in the english language. And NO, this isn't the rantings of an embittered single person (that's for Valentine's day), I am telling it like it is. From now on, I will tune out that word, like it was never invented.
AND NO, I'm not bitter. AND YES, you will agree with me.
"Just because you can't say something doesn't mean you don't want to, you can want to very much. You can be with a person and be happy with them and not love them. And you can love somebody and not want to be with them. You don't need to love someone to want them. Now that's frustrating, when what your brain tells you you want and what you actually want don't match up. It’s exhausting. And, well, it’s complicated. But that's life. And life... sucks."
I disagree, life doesn't suck, it just has an odd sense of humor. And let's face it, these days, any humor is better than no humor. Like how you are probably getting a kick out of my incessantly quoting Grey's Anatomy. My brain tells me the show is probably headed for suckage, but it's so suckingly good.
PS. I have come to the conclusion that nobody has any grasp over the meaning of the word love, so people should stop throwing it around like it has any significance. I hope in this lifetime (and the next) I will not find myself pathetically slobbering that word on a poor defenseless human being. It is perhaps the most meaningless word in the english language. And NO, this isn't the rantings of an embittered single person (that's for Valentine's day), I am telling it like it is. From now on, I will tune out that word, like it was never invented.
AND NO, I'm not bitter. AND YES, you will agree with me.
posted by Mix at 12:49 AM
3 Comments:
The quote sounded a lot better until I heard it was from GA.
I disagree with your ps, and hope someday you do indeed fall slobberingly in love with someone who reciprocates your drool.
It's true, it's very very frustrating when your brain tells you one thing and the rest of you tell you something else. It's a really difficult place to be. I think in that situation, people need to prioritize and take another look at their life values and goals and try to make a decision according to that. Easy to say, hard to do. It's all just part of the life process.
As for sense of humor ... I think that all has to do with attitude, if you have a flexible and postive attitude than anything can be humorous. I could do with some of that right about now.
I totally agree. The word love has been misused and abused. People should use it as little as possible because it's my suspicion that very very few of us has even a glimmer of what it means.
Response to cookie monster's comment:
Hmm, I always find disagreement enlightening (that is after I get over the fact that there's people out there who doesn't think the way I do).
Sure, just because I feel like I don't know what love is, doesn't mean that other people hasn't figured it out.
However, I feel like when a lot of people say "I love you" what they really mean is "I want to keep you around as long as you make me feel good, and once you're not doing things the way I want then I'm going to dump you." I also don't agree with definitions of love as a feeling. Feelings come and go, they're not permanent, which makes love seem like it's some transient thing that comes and goes with a person's change of mood. I also don't think it's that gushy butterfly feeling in one's stomach, that's just a crush. Sometimes people say "I love you" but what they mean is "I'm emotionally dependent on you". Sure some people would like that kind of dependency ... I'm not one of them.
What is your definition of love?
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