what should really be on a hallmark card.
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's eye."
-The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
- I've never much been one who takes a notice of Valentine's day. I think we should all revert back to the days of Luprical and choose a lover for a year (and to boot initiate it by chasing each other around with a leather thong.) But for this year (and seeing how things usually go with me, the next few can also be included here) i would like to not be as pessimistic about relationships as i have been the last few years. Many wonderful and engaging things have been experienced but the last four months have warn away any tolerance of bitterness, false sentiments, and promises based on "love". And what is too real is that things like this happen not from an underlying want to be a conniving person but from a want to please that person at any cost. How do you ignore this and when is the time to give up on it? when is it beyond disappointment? The reevaluation is in motion on both sides and i guess we'll see what happens... i come with no predictions just a want to find the happiness in smiling in the sunshine and experiencing that slick warmth of a new feeling.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful of what we pretend.
- Vonnegut
-The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
- I've never much been one who takes a notice of Valentine's day. I think we should all revert back to the days of Luprical and choose a lover for a year (and to boot initiate it by chasing each other around with a leather thong.) But for this year (and seeing how things usually go with me, the next few can also be included here) i would like to not be as pessimistic about relationships as i have been the last few years. Many wonderful and engaging things have been experienced but the last four months have warn away any tolerance of bitterness, false sentiments, and promises based on "love". And what is too real is that things like this happen not from an underlying want to be a conniving person but from a want to please that person at any cost. How do you ignore this and when is the time to give up on it? when is it beyond disappointment? The reevaluation is in motion on both sides and i guess we'll see what happens... i come with no predictions just a want to find the happiness in smiling in the sunshine and experiencing that slick warmth of a new feeling.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful of what we pretend.
- Vonnegut