Hopelessly Romantic

With all that's been going on in my life, friends have always asked, "So do you still have time for love?" I just answer it with a smirk but I admit it has crossed my mind. I've read, heard and said all the cliches you can think of, and given all the excuses and alibis but truth be told I'm still baffled as how it's easy for others but not to me. Is it because I have standards, is it other circumstances that would make it close to impossible to make it happen, without someone getting hurt in the process.

I'm as hopelessly romatic as the next guy. Maybe part of me is always sitting there like Clark Kent, wishing that she would see the Superman inside me. With her having the enduring experience of putting up with the Clark Kent in me while she's searching for her Superman. It's such a very fundamental human experience...

Also a bit poetically ironic.

Never Forget

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is. -Frank O'Connor