Common Sense only goes so far
I've been thinking lately about romantic relationships. Not my own unfortunately, because . . . well, I don't have one. Though, funny enough it wasn't my own love life (or lack there of) that started me thinking but a friend of mine, D. Last night we were talking about her break-up from her latest boyfriend, but what got me thinking about common sense and relationships is how she and my cousin always come to me for romantic advice.
I started to wonder, Why? I mean I've gone out with guys but they never turned into anything more than a one time thing. So it's not like I have tons of experience, yet they both keep coming back and asking questions. The one time I brought up to D, about how funny I found it that people ask me for relationship advice. She told me was that the reason everyone keeps coming back to ask me was because I gave great advice. Well that's all well and good, but to me it's just common sense.
So after last night I started thinking that maybe why D and M keep coming back wasn't so much that my advice was common sense for everyone but it was my common sense and plus it was from a third party who wasn't close to the matter at all. Which then leads me to my next question: Once, I get into a relationship does that mean all of my common sense about relationship (for D and M) will go out the window, because I'll no longer be an outside third party, but right smack dab in the middle? My answer is hopefully NO!
I mean, I know they say love is blind and all that, but I hope that doesn't mean that love will blind my common sense.
I started to wonder, Why? I mean I've gone out with guys but they never turned into anything more than a one time thing. So it's not like I have tons of experience, yet they both keep coming back and asking questions. The one time I brought up to D, about how funny I found it that people ask me for relationship advice. She told me was that the reason everyone keeps coming back to ask me was because I gave great advice. Well that's all well and good, but to me it's just common sense.
So after last night I started thinking that maybe why D and M keep coming back wasn't so much that my advice was common sense for everyone but it was my common sense and plus it was from a third party who wasn't close to the matter at all. Which then leads me to my next question: Once, I get into a relationship does that mean all of my common sense about relationship (for D and M) will go out the window, because I'll no longer be an outside third party, but right smack dab in the middle? My answer is hopefully NO!
I mean, I know they say love is blind and all that, but I hope that doesn't mean that love will blind my common sense.