Things that should have been left behind

Dating sucks as any of you who read and follow this blog already know. I still haven't found the love of my life, the new man I would like to marry or even at the very least, I haven't even found my next ex-husband yet. lol But no one is so rich as to throw away a friend. Or so I read in the movies.

Through this, I have met someone who is getting close to that friend category. We just hang out sometimes but I can see perhaps a friendship beginning. After I returned from my trip during spring break, he took me out to dinner and we talked a bit more. It is still in the uncomfortable stage of the beginning. You know beginnings are always scary and endings are usually sad but its the part in the middle that counts.

Beginnings in new relationships whether it be a working relationship, a friend relationship, or a romantic relationship, the beginning is normally awkward because you are still learning a lot about each other. We all live on this big living breathing rock and we can't expand anymore so we have got to learn to seek what it truth and righteous only by that will we be able to come together. Until then, we are all just walking around bumping into cold emotional walls or hormonal lakes of sinking sand. It would be wise if we knew which of the two we were walking into before it was too late and we were already suffering the consequences of our blindness.

So now I had to go into the "I only like you as a friend" speech which is always uncomfortable; I think for everyone. But at least it is not the dreaded and pathological, "It's not you, it's me speech." How pathetic is that one? I must say it is hands down the most irrational and deranged oxymoron result with the least bit of tact that our modern society spew upon the dating culture. Yes, it is post-modern culture now, I am up with the times but even so, the hauntings of the recent past still loom if not only in our minds but in our television screens as well which by the way, our Y2K generation thinks it is totally original. Apparently no one has yet ventured or gotten around to telling them that they are just putting on the product of the bowels of the 1980's.

We couldn't wait for the 1980's to be over so we could party like it is 1999. Now it is 2010 and we still want to party like it's 1999. When they brought back the sequence T-shirts and the leg-warmers, let's all be thankful the stone washed jeans weren't right behind them. No matter how I denied it, I knew I was getting old when I heard Bruce Springsteen a.k.a. The Boss, being played on the oldies radio channel. Somethings just shouldn't be done and that is one of them. At least Billy Idol hasn't ever aged, he looks the very same now as he did 30 years ago. Thank you Billy Idol for giving us all hope.