Old Faithful
I read this yesterday in David Sedaris' latest book When You Are Engulfed In Flames:
"Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I'll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other's body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly. By the end of our first month together, he'd been so thoroughly interrogated that all I had left was breaking news-what little had happened in the few hours since I'd last seen him. Were he a cop or an emergency room doctor, there might have been a lot to catch up on, but like me Hugh works alone, so there was never much to report."
My jaw dropped when I read this paragraph because it's the exact situation that Arden and I are in, which makes me incredibly sad. We've been together for almost two years and there's rarely an exciting moment anymore.
Things have become quite depressing lately.
"Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I'll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other's body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly. By the end of our first month together, he'd been so thoroughly interrogated that all I had left was breaking news-what little had happened in the few hours since I'd last seen him. Were he a cop or an emergency room doctor, there might have been a lot to catch up on, but like me Hugh works alone, so there was never much to report."
My jaw dropped when I read this paragraph because it's the exact situation that Arden and I are in, which makes me incredibly sad. We've been together for almost two years and there's rarely an exciting moment anymore.
Things have become quite depressing lately.