advice from your uncle john
"This is a tip from your Uncle John, check it out: When you first meet somebody, you find out they like you, first of all. A friend of a friend of theirs says he or she really really likes you and it kills you, floors you, sends you to the ground. You gotta pick yourself up off the ground. Then you get their phone number and you call them up, right? And you're like 'yeah, that was a great phone conversation, can I see you sometime?' and then they say this, they say 'I'd like that.' 'I'd like that' makes you fall on the floor again, your hearts about to stop because of 'I'd like that.' So now your blood pressures going, you're six feet off the ground, you can't sleep because of 'I'd like that.' So then you hang out for awhile and you call and you talk on the phone all the time and then you drop the bomb, or what feels like the bomb, and you say 'I've been thinking about you a lot.' She goes *sigh* and you go 'what happened?' and she goes 'sorry I just, I just, I just, I just, that's, I've been thinking about you too.' BAM! Higher in the sky, but now 'I'd like that' -- done. Now you're up to 'I've been thinking about you.' Then however number of months pass that makes you feel comfortable saying it, you say 'I gotta tell you something' they go 'what?' you go 'I'm in love with you.' And nothing in the world sounds better than 'I'm in love with you'. And then maybe she starts crying or he goes *gasp*. And all of a sudden you're like 'I'm in.' But now what doesnt' work, 'I'd like that' and 'I've been thinking about you.' Then, maybe someday we'll get up to 'I love you.' Fast-forward, now we're like 'I love you a lot', 'I love you more than anything in life.' Now 'I love you' doesn't work. It's a threshold you keep moving up. Fast-forward like six months, six weeks, whatever the case may be. Now you're like 'I wanna marry you', 'I wanna impregnate you with my love', 'I wanna, I wanna just send my love to you. Damnit words don't work anymore.' And then you say this line, and you know, you know you've used this line before, 'I just wish they put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.' And so then now he or she starts asking 'Do you love me?' and you start going 'Of course I love you', 'Well, say it!' And then it becomes 'say it twice', and then 'say it three times.' And then you cross a really interesting point where all of the sudden it becomes 'I hate you, I hate you' and you go 'Oh my god, she hates me.' And now it's like 'I hate you more than anything.' And then it's like 'We're over!' and then they go 'No, we're not!' and you go 'Yes, we are!' And now the words completely do not work at all and you're left with nothing. You're throwing punches under the water. You're done. You know what the moral of that story is, if there is one, never, ever, ever, ever underestimate the power of 'I'd like that.'"
-John Mayer, Any Given Thursday DVD
p.s. dom, dont hate me for not doing a cut ;)