Its not that people can't live without love, its that we just choose to keep coming back.
Its impossible to remember some things, though they keep coming around, repeatedly, year after year, until they should have become something so expected, so intergral, that the reason they pass into non-recognition is that we simply just live with them. But its always amazing the things that you never quite take for granted, like the fact that every time it snows the light of a hundred cars passing in the street below is magnified tenfold until it seems like daylight, or that no matter how long we think we can last, toughing it out, we keep falling in love.
We can see, or maybe I can see, it coming a mile off, the very first stages of it never quite hitting the full cognition, but instead manifesting itself in a thousand little gestures, one or two double-thought responses to a couple of throwaway phrases that he uttered that could have had one meaning, but should have had another. I remember these kinds of things from grade school, and yet, its not like I am aware enough of them to stop them before they do what they always do.
Why is it that even though we know we'll be disappointed, even though there is such a much greater chance that things aren't going to work out, that we take the chance anyway? If anything, by now, modern adults with more knowledge about human behavior under their belt than we could ever want, should realize that falling in love is sort of a useless thing to do.
I don't happen to have much more than a long story of chances that fell apart right before they were supposed to become something big, some avoided heartache, some avoided I don't know what, maybe heartache, maybe something better. The last one was a blessing, probably a narrow miss at a guy that needed saving. A guy who at least said he needed saving, but turned out to have lied about even that. This time around, what happened for the next guy was supposed to happen for him, maybe better for me, but now, here I am, back where I started.
Maybe we take with us the knowledge that, after all of this suffering, we still can love. Maybe somewhere we understand that despite all of this, there's a destination, and these are just really awful street signs along the way. If I can do this once, I can do this a thousand times. I might not want to do this a thousand times, but no one said that was up to me. For now, I'm content to believe that the last week was at least worth knowing that I'm ready when it happens.