When is it acceptable to keep having strong feelings for someone you're not with and when does it just become pointless? 6 months? A year? Two? .......Three?? What is it that causes these feelings to linger inside your heart, ghost like, haunting you at every turn like some B-rate horror movie? A Paranormal Activity of the heart, if you will. Is it an unfulfilled potential? Is it from something that ended far before it should have? Maybe, it's from a relationship that never had the chance that it deserved.
On this blog, I pretend that I have all the answers for all of life's questions. I'll sit here at my keyboard and I'll tap-tap-tappity out some snide comment about the ridiculousness of following a set of religious rules or I'll condemn the American populace for idolizing a 40-something reality t.v. star. However, I can't (and won't) sit here and pretend to be above such things as longing for a feeling that you used to have.Yearning to just sit next to that person one more time, if only for five or ten minutes. In fact, these are the types of things that I think people should invest more effort into instead of only wanting a bigger house. Or a faster car. Or a swimming pool filled with gold coins. Do you really want to be Scrooge McDuck that bad?
If you've ever felt strongly about anyone....ever....it's crucial that you hold that memory close to you, that you remember what it's like to be able to feel that way about another human being. Regardless of how painfully it may have ended (or, if you're incredibly lucky and have worked incredibly hard it's still going). Without these desires to be with another person, without these burning passions that we share with our fellow human beings, we may as well be dead already.
It's been said many times before by people much more intelligent than I am and much more skilled with putting it into words; but passion, desire, love....these are what make our world go round. Not money. Not fame. Not being a psuedo-celebrity on a two-bit MTV reality show. People do these things because they think it will increase their odds of gaining the ONE thing that they, and everyone else, really want.
They want to be your memory.
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