Two Species: Bitter or Simply Stupid

I don't understand why when we were growing up our moms always said, "Don't talk to strangers."  My conversations with strangers are like a breath of fresh air; usually insightful and surprisingly I can make their stories relate to my life like a horoscope.  I wake up late today with plenty on my mind and after a hot shower I find myself sitting at the bar at Villagio with a glass of wine next to an older and interesting guy, Ray.

After some small talk, he starts venting to me about his lady problems...awkward.  I listen as my wine glass begins to empty at a faster pace, but I had a feeling this conversation would have a point.  Sure as daylight- it did.

All day I have these thoughts going through my mind.  Relationships are lose-lose situations and those of you who are in love right now may beg to differ with me, but call me in a couple years and let me know where you're at.  I can't help but think to myself, what is the point of it all?  All good things must come to an end, unfortunately.  Why set yourself up for heartbreak?  But in the other perspective, why keep a wall and never set yourself up for love?

Anyways, back to Ray.  While I'm semi-listening, semi-ignoring, and drinking my wine he says one sentence that woke me up.  "And then I broke the most important rule."   I set my glass down and say, "Enlighten me.  What rule did you break?"  As he shakes his head he looks up and tells me, "I fell in love with her."

Falling in love may give you a rush when it happens, but so does shooting heroin.  Some things just aren't for everybody. 

I guess I'm more of a realist than a romantic.  Some women look forward to getting chocolates and flowers on Valentine's Day, and others would rather watch Jerry McGuire alone in bed while eating a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.  Love is over rated.  Maybe bitter women are the way they are because they just don't have what those hopeless romantics do, a bitch.  Or maybe the hopeless romantics dream in the clouds because they don't have what the bitter women do, guts.

By all means don't fight a good thing; but is the time you spend with that somebody worth taking the risk of having it all end one day?  Only to leave you with that unbearable pain that yes, may slowly disappear as time goes on, but the smallest bit remains to linger on inside of you forever.  Should we just spare ourselves?  Or is it even worse to put up your wall and never take the risk, saving yourself from the heartbreak?  All in all, at this point in time I'd say love is for suckers.

The Power of a Woman

Every female is an actress; we convince others that we are happy when we want to cry, make a boy believe we are in love with them when we aren’t, and nine times out of ten when you lie to us we already know the truth. 

Men always accuse us of “playing head games” and we deny it.  In all honesty we should just own up to it because not only do we play games, we master them.  Remember the commercials with the catchy song?  “Anything you can do, I can do better!  I can do anything better than you!”  Let me give you an example just to prove my point.

My best friend was dating a guy at home in New Jersey and after a break up he recently moved to Boca Raton.  Naturally, as any loyal girlfriend would, I agreed to keep tabs on this fellow.  Putting the master plan into action began with my roommate adding him on Facebook and starting some small talk.  He asks her for her number (wrong move) and she gives him mine.  So this guy thinks he is texting my roommate these past few weeks when all along he is texting me, his ex’s best friend…what a sucker.  This is what I call a controlled situation.

This entire time the boy thinks he is high and mighty “playing” his game; texting my roommate trying to set up dates and turning around calling his ex in New Jersey saying how he misses her.  How stupid does he look when she knows everything he has been texting her friend?

The power of Facebook allowed us to unleash our plan at the perfect moment so we could maximize his embarrassment.  I laid it all out on the line for him on my best friend’s page, explaining how he had really been texting me under the impression he was texting Sara.  Busted.  You see boys, you think you know what we are up to but we are always two steps ahead.  My words of advice for the opposite sex: never underestimate the power of a woman.

Catch Them If You Can

I always say if you don't have high expectations for somebody than they can never disappoint you, but something as genuine as keeping your word seems to be so difficult for some.  Breaking a promise leads to my disappointment.  Who would have ever thought that the simple words that come out of a person's mouth, could have such an effect on the simple thoughts that linger in my mind?

We have all lied before; whether it be a tiny little fib to get us out of trouble at that very moment which will soon be forgotten, or a disturbing lie to cover our own mistakes which will haunt us later on.  Most days I just want to meet the man who invented lying so I can kick him between his legs with my Steve Madden heels, but all the other days I feel like I could just call him because I'm certain his number is in my cell phone. 

Some people may eat up your lies because ignorance is bliss; they would truly just rather not know the reality of a situation.  I pity anyone who adopts that mindset.  You're simply scarred from all those times when you got your feelings hurt and somebody raises their eyebrows at you before they say, "Well, the truth hurts."  So now you think that what you won't know won't harm you and you accept the filthy, false words that roll off of a liar's lips.  Listen- you were an idiot then, and you're more of an idiot now. 

I'd rather be upset by some honest words that I don't like hearing than be ignorant and made a fool of.  When toilet paper is stuck on your shoe and you walk around with a huge oblivious grin on your face, wouldn't you rather have someone tell you than let you continue on looking like a fool?  If your boyfriend or girlfriend were cheating on you and everyone including their mother and mailman knew about it, wouldn't you want to be informed?  For those of you who serve the lies, good luck.  And for those of you who believe the lies, you're a lost cause.  

What's most imporant?  Knowing the truth or walking around with a smile that is built from everything but that?  Some may say ignorance is bliss, but lately I beg to differ.  If you must lie, think about what will happen once you're caught.  A simple thing we share everyday-words, have no meaning most of the time because talk is cheap and the suckers will never catch the liars.