I have a new little third cousin! That may sound very far-removed but it\u2019s not really. Her name is Casey and she\u2019s 7lbs and she has lots of black hair and big blue eyes. She will be my prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u2026 Seriously. Because all my other cousins are little boys who follow my brother around like he\u2019s the best thing since sliced bread. This one\u2019s MINE! (I don\u2019t mean that to sound half as sinister as it does\u2026)<\/p>\n
I went for a walk last night with an old friend who I barely see but every time we do we get along so incredibly well. We talk about EVERYTHING from religion to Albert Camus to friends from primary school and their bogan boyfriends.<\/p>\n
So this got me thinking, why can\u2019t you choose the people that you are attracted to? Because this guy is great, we never run out of things to talk about, we laugh heaps, I could tell him anything and I feel totally comfortable around him so why isn\u2019t that enough? And what is attraction? And why is it that we always want the one thing we can\u2019t seem to have? Is if for that very reason, striving for the unobtainable? I\u2019m starting to get the feeling that it\u2019s just all a load of bolloks anyway. I bet if we were given that which we cannot have, it wouldn\u2019t be nearly as alluring\u2026 or would it? Is attraction chemical or a state of mind? Can it grow and diminish or is it instantaneous \u2013 it\u2019s either there or it\u2019s not? By merely questioning this I am going against my whole belief system (true love exists, everything will end happily ever after, whatever you believe in will come true\u2026etc. Call it naive of me but I think anything else is defeatism.)<\/p>\n
*sigh*<\/p>\n
One’s love life is so troublesome these days. Life would be so much simpler if we still relied on arranged marriages.<\/p>\n
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