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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Being in Love

is pretty cool.

Being in love with your work and your life is even better.

Bopping down the street to 80s pop lyrics in your head:
Never gonna give you up / never gonna let you down / never gonna turn around and desert you / never gonna make you cry / never gonna say goodbye / never gonna tell a lie that would hurt you

and thinking: “How true. How profound. That’s exactly how I feel about Migritude.”
is just plain hilarious.

The other thing about being in love is that you always find parking spaces. Effortlessly. You just know, without thinking, which turn to take, which road to choose, and there they are.

3 Comments:

Blogger Joe Bryak said...

"...you always find parking spaces. Effortlessly. You just know..." Me, I can't find my keys when in love, nor my car. But I know what you mean. In my case I can find the rhythm on my drums, the chord or notes on my bass. Being in love is being in tune, yeah...

2/26/2006 3:59 PM  
Anonymous Will said...

ah, but being in love can have the opposite effect and can sometimes promote confusion and mess things up. Look at the reasons and benefits of the state of being depressed. Depression can force people to improve their lives and to grow, whereas being in love can paralyse you with a sense of well-being and effectively slow down your development in some areas.

5/19/2008 12:58 AM  
Blogger shailja said...

I don't mean to trivialize what you said, Will. But your comment is totally cracking me up. Can't stop giggling over it.

"paralyse you with a sense of well-being" is my new favourite phrase of the month.

Seriously, though, I think the "falling in love" that promotes confusion and messes things up is what I'd call infatuation or projection - the emotional equivalent of comfort eating. Really falling in love, in my experience, is something more life-changing; like stepping under a waterfall and coming fully alive. It makes me larger, braver and more joyful.

8/06/2008 7:55 AM  

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