Post Secret #4

I got a flat tire today and it made me realize that there are times I don't know whether I should laugh or cry because, though I have been taught to take care of myself despite the situation...there are times in which I wish I didn't have to always do it on my own.

How Old is Old?

How old does something have to be to get 'old' to a point of just giving up?
About seven years in the making and today, as i have done in the past, I very openly voiced my exasperation with a: " I cannot explain to you how tired I am of all this status quo. Just as tired as I am of mentioning that I'm tired of it all. Just as tired of not seeing any end in sight..."


The answer I got was....

"Hi! Finally home and going to take a nap after my big lunch. How is your day going?"

*****

I don't know if I should laugh or cry. But like a battered tired old boxer, I'm ready to throw in the towel....

Cheater Cheater - Pumpkin Eater

"Once a cheater, always a cheater."

Is that really so I wonder?
And if it is, why is it so?
Is one afflicted by the syndrome of the grass is greener in someone else's yard?
Or is it just the inability to know what one wants?
Maybe an addiction to the thrill of the chase that wears off once it's no longer there.
After all, it is in human nature to want what you can't have.
Could it be a form of gluttony - want my cake and eat it too.

And if this is an affliction how did it come about?
Could it be a result of a bad experience?
A bitter end to an even more bitter marriage.
A bitchy girlfriend or consequence of an unbearable heartbreak that subconsciously won't allow one to get too attached to someone.

And as an affliction is there absolutely no cure for it?
The romantics would say that love conquers all.
The realists would say love has its work cut out for it.
What do the rest of us say?

I say that if "once a cheater, always a cheater" is a sentence without the possibility of parole or redemption, life is pretty grim.