Systematic Falling
Disagreeing with Illegible's post below, I think that falling 'willy-nilly' is a supremely dangerous game. Surely that's one thing we've all learnt?
Don't do it.
Yes, it's not very romantic, but romance is dead. It got stabbed forty-six times in the face and chest by the freak that fucked you over way back when. It couldn't even have an open casket, the poor sod.
What remains is more logic than romance. Save the falling for when the time's right. When is the time right? When they've fallen for you.
I suppose what I'm saying is don't fall for them more than they have for you. It's systematic and planned, and the hopeless romantic in me (who lies rotting in a closed casket) hates me saying this. But it's only temporary. There does come a point where you can forget about defences and just go for it.
Of course, at that point, you face the tribulations of being fully in love - but at least by that point you'd both be screwed by each other if anything went wrong.
Mutually-Assured Destruction is never likely to occur. Don't hand them the detonator to a nuclear bomb in your heart, unless they've given you the same. And other WOMD analogies...
Don't do it.
Yes, it's not very romantic, but romance is dead. It got stabbed forty-six times in the face and chest by the freak that fucked you over way back when. It couldn't even have an open casket, the poor sod.
What remains is more logic than romance. Save the falling for when the time's right. When is the time right? When they've fallen for you.
I suppose what I'm saying is don't fall for them more than they have for you. It's systematic and planned, and the hopeless romantic in me (who lies rotting in a closed casket) hates me saying this. But it's only temporary. There does come a point where you can forget about defences and just go for it.
Of course, at that point, you face the tribulations of being fully in love - but at least by that point you'd both be screwed by each other if anything went wrong.
Mutually-Assured Destruction is never likely to occur. Don't hand them the detonator to a nuclear bomb in your heart, unless they've given you the same. And other WOMD analogies...
posted by Juliet is Bleeding... | 10:27 am
I only think that MAD is less likely to happen, not impossible. I've had MAD occur on one occasion, and the radiation levels are still provoking casualties.
You are right, however. Even once in unrequited love you can get blown up. But there is, literally, no solution to that. You just have to risk & hope you're not living in the Cave, I guess.
PLAN D: Explain what the hell a hair shirt is.
well that makes about as much sense as a screen door on a battleship. how are you supposed to only fall in love, if they have fallen for you? that way nobody falls in love. and i seriously don't think that you should think of falling in love as a game. just let things happen naturally.
It's not impossible to fall in love if both sides are cautious about it.
Falling without thinking about it is just gluttonous, lazy and dangerous for everybody. You might as well say 'don't go to the loo when you need a shit, just let it happen naturally'.
I've randomly noticed that in my first comment I wrote 'unrequited love' instead of 'requited love'. Sorry about that.
Oh, and Blogger is a sagging, dried-up granny-cunt for not allowing the editing of comments. What's up with that?