Friday, April 13, 2012

Make It Stop

“…she wonders if what she believes to be a love for the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.” Truth.

20.12 One Day
Dex and Em, Em and Dex.  I would like to punch you both in the face.  I am sure your love story is familiar to everyone, because we all remember the worst about ourselves and dwell on it, but that is why it was impossible to root for you.  You were meant to have a one-night stand when you were 20 and now you are 40 and have put a massive amount of unrealistic expectation on one another.  

Dex, you are a drunk, a mean drunk.  And you take on women to try to complete something in you that can’t be fixed.  Em, you are whiney and a push over.  You are mean to all of the men in your life because they are not Dex.  In fact, you ruin everything in the hopes of being with Dex.  How did that work out for ya?

We see you both once a year, and yet not much happens to either one of you.  Neither gets better or worse, neither becomes a worthy companion for the other.  Neither of you are characters I care about or have hopes for.  I know that the Truth in life is that we take those around us for granted and put off adventures and dreams for another day, but I am thinking that reading about you was supposed to inspire me to not do that in my own life and it just didn’t.

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