I read this in someone’s profile on OkCupid today:
“I understand now that you will always be alone in life. That your journey is just that- yours. Sometimes we are lucky enough to find that special person who will walk with us for a while and experience the same things and open up new paths... yet, life is solitary and I'm beginning to think the people that come into it- are fleeting... and WONDERful while they're there.
I wish someone would want to walk with me a little longer. “
It’s something that resonated with me, because it’s something that my bitter and jaded self has believed for a long time now. I really like the way she expressed it, but I would only add this:
The problem with finding someone to walk with is that most people seem to find it more convenient to drive around for ages in order to find a good parking spot than to hoof it that extra mile. Then, once they've found that spot, they seem generally loath to give it up because its convenient.
Don’t know if it’s laziness or something else, but that’s as apt a metaphor for the way people have relationships as any I can think of.
Maybe this is why I don't drive these days.
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And then there are those who not only kill themselves for a good spot, but who then proceed to hop on your back and expect you to carry them in from the car.
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