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Mon, December 1, 2008 8:15 am By sarah
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MR. RIGHT

We continue. We go out for linguini each Friday night, have a sleepover each Saturday night, and persist on as though we might actually want to be with this person on an everlasting basis. Except, of course, that we do not. And it’s not that there’s anything incorrect with him, except that he’s not “The One.”
Then, we begin to think of our alternatives. What will take place if we break it off? Staying home on Saturday nights for the respite of our lives? Getting caught at the singles table at every wedding for the rest of the decade? A forlorn, distressed life of Wheel of Fortune, reclusive, TV dinners and rescued pets?
So we hang about. After all, it’s not really that awful, right? Sure he doesn’t make your toes prickle when you kiss. Sure, she’s captivated to reality television. Sure, his clothes are well, detestable.
But here’s what happens when you hang about in a relationshipyou’re not meant to be in: Every Saturday night you’re with Mr. Right Now, is a Saturday night you’re missing in the midst of Mr. Right.
Imagine about it. While you’re gaping through another night of blah-blah togetherness, your ideal match could be circling the block.
Why do we stay with the current? Because not-exactly-perfect is a lot less terrifying than whatever is at the back door number three. Sometimes we agonize that if we drop the person we’re with that nobody superior ever will come along, and that we’ll misplace the best thing that has ever happened to us in hunt of the ever-elusive toe-curler that may not even subsist.
Most people think in their hearts that there is at least one perfect counterpart for all of us. I am no exemption: I met my ideal match the week after a three-year bland-as-white-toast relationshiplastly dragged itself to an end.
If you’re looking for something large to come into your life, you have to formulate room for it. And, in all equality, your King of Monotony may be someone else’s Prince Charming. All it takes is one daring step, one chance taken to catch the guy of your dreams.
Just step away from the materialistic world, and head out the door.





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