Friday, December 02, 2005

"We can be friends" and other lies

I have never maintained a relationship of any sort after a break up. Polite is about all I can manage. When a relationship is over it is as though that person has died. I'll miss em' but it's time to move on. Whenever I see them it's every bit as frightening as seeing a ghost. You can at least call Bill Murray and force her into a box using electric licorice whips. (A Ghostbuster reference.)
Once the decision has been made to part ways, that's all she wrote and it's almost always mutual. There is nothing left to say. When you quit your job in high school you didn't go back and try to ring people up at Target.
Relationships (if done properly) should be filled with passion & intensity and the break up should be just as passionate and intense as the relationship. Lets part friends BULLSHIT! Somebody's been hurt, and that makes it ugly! You can't be friends with someone you've loved and then broken up with. You can't turn it on and off like a light, from"I love you." to "Were cool." doesn't work. If you've done that one of two things is at work here
1. You didn't care that much in the first place.
2. YOU ARE LYING TO YOURSELF.
Here is a similar thought by someone more articulate and more rational than myself.