OK so just so you know in my AP English class we read The Great Gatsby...and in the book there's this main guy, and his name is Jay Gatsby...and he's spent literally thirty years of his life mooning after this one girl, her name is Daisy.
He goes away to the army, and leaves her for 2-3 years, and she gets married while he's gone. When he comes back and realizes it, he walks the streets of the town they met in for like three days....and then he buys a multi-million dollar house across the bay from her house, and throws elaborate parties almost every night in the hopes that she'll wander in and they'll be reunited...and then when they are, it's not as good as he thought....
And I have decided this is the romantic's curse.
It is when a person who falls for another person starts thinking so much about the person that they're dating that they can't see reality anymore, and they only see the 'perfect' version of their lover....and this is toxic because there's only so long one can keep reality at bay...and so now I'm wondering....
Where do we draw the line? Where does admiring someone we're dating as a good person who's someone we think are good enough for us turn into not being able to see the flaws of them? I have self-diagnosed my last relationship as having the romantic's curse...I blinded myself with love to the point where I couldn't see anything anymore....
SO WHAT DO WE DO TO PROTECT OURSELVES? What about those of us that want to be devoured by love. Consumed, and ridden with it? Because that's what I want...not now but someday. It's difficult...there's too many tricky lines...
But at the same time, I am firmly against any kind of locking one's heart away. I think if more people kept their hearts open to love then life would be so much better....as a whole...
BUT anyways...comments! Questions?
Consumed and ridden by love...? I think you've nailed that for me there Libby... I completely forgot about this book, but remembering back, I'd probably turn out to be just like Jay in 10 or 20 years. I'll devote my life to finding Zoey... Then when I find her I'll throw desperate attempts to 'accidentally' run into her, and then try and be with her again.... And who knows how it'll turn out... Hopefully, if it turns out bad, I can just end up like Gatsby as well..... That way I don't have to endure the emotionally rippage... But enough about me! This is rela good Libster. Romantic's Curse. The best of us are melded with it into our hearts...
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