While I was organizing things before I took it down to my craft room, I came across alot of old pictures and stuff. Some of it I'd been looking for for a long time! And some things I forgot I even had. Including cards & pictures from old boyfriends. Yeah. Mostly stuff from R. As I was going through the the pictures, I was easily able to toss some of them. Bad angles, light, closed eyes, etc. But there were a few that didn't mean much to me, but I thought he might like, so I considered sending them along. Then I found these cards. These completely lame cards that made me think, "why, oh why was I so stupid?" Cards about being "best friends," because you know we weren't "together" but we were so they couldn't be love cards. I'm rolling my eyes at my naive self just thinking about it. So in one card he wrote about the gift he gave me for my birthday, I think. Yeah, he gave me back a DVD I gave to him. Because it meant so much to the two of us. HA! Lame, lame, lame! I'm sure at the time I thought it was so sweet and so full of sentiment. Seriously though, if I came across that DVD in my collection today (well, yesterday because I *do* remember it now), I would have never even thought of him. Isn't that funny?
Oddly enough, my sister seems to be going through a similar situation with this guy she's been seeing. Although at an accelerated rate. She's only been seeing him since March, I think it took R and I the better part of 2 years to get to that point. I want to pull out these old cards for her and tell her to not waste her time, but I know it's futile. She's going to do what she wants to do when she wants to do it. And yeah, she might be heartbroken for awhile, but eventually it all goes away and you forget how you acquired stupid things like meaningful DVDs in the first place.
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Oh man, I have those moments too when I think back at myself and think, "you silly girl!"
I was just thinking about this the other night. Josh and I talk about early days of our relationship from time to time, and I realized how unnecessarily angsty we were. Why?!
I definitely think there is something to be said for making your own mistakes. But it stinks to see others repeat a pattern that you already know the ending to, but not be able to get them to message without upsetting them.
Oh, to be young and naive...Of course, I'm still naive. :)
I think it is required to be angsty in your teens & early 20's. That's why!
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