If spring brings romance into the air, obviously the sparkling magic palls by late summer... a number of the girls I know have been in break-ups recently, including my wedding pact member, Graceless Grace and also Preity Posh.
Of the two, Preity Posh is the one who surprised me most when she broke up with her long-time boyfriend out of a sudden. She plays the role of a toughie but she has a soft heart that's easily squashed. Grace might be a great friend but I know her faults too well - one of them being a tendency to criticize just a bit too much so I can imagine how that must have pissed off her boyfriend. They are both incredibly different and yet the both of them cited a lack of romance as one of the reasons for the breakups which made me smile inwardly because... I know exactly what they feel.
Everyone I know would say I'm a simple, practical guy ( at least I think they would! ). A guy who talks straight and shoots from the hip without thinking. A guy who'd take books and ties for presents rather than the occasional rose and a note on the windshield. A guy who'd prefer chicken soup and a shoulder to cry on rather than fireworks and moonlit walks.
But they would be totally wrong. :)
Deep inside my conservative, no-nonsense exterior, I fear that I might be a closet sappy romantic. When the evening gets cool and dark, I play a lil jazz... a lil swing music. Just like in the old movies... I imagine that right guy coming along to sweep me off my feet to trip along the light fantastic ( I've always wanted to use that line! ). It's the problem with some of the dates I've been to. Perhaps I am looking for too much but I need a little magic. It doesn't have to be the perfect date - I'm certainly full of faults myself - and I can certainly live with the mundane and the usual grind... but every once in a while, I'd need the sunbursts and marble halls.
Yeah I know, lately, I've been kinda a sap.
A sap who buys thongs for straight guys apparently, since I'm going shopping tomorrow.
8 comments:
slaps!!! wake up and smell the coffee...it ain't gonna happen honey!
I think we're all a little romantic...but if we weren't, we would be no fun.
I know. I know. I've been a lil sappy all evening.
Paul
I've always known you're a romantic guy, Paul ! Loved the stories you wrote on that other website of yours. There are two in particular I REALLY like, "The Birthday Boy" and "Mr. Chocolate". Why I like "The Birthday Boy" is so obvious, don't you think ?!! Hehe !
What inspired you when you write ? Does it come from your own experiences, perhaps ?! *wink*wink*
Oh yes, Paul, I'd sussed that you were a deeply Romantic guy. It just shines through. :o)
Glad you're not going shopping with Handsome Hui, though. I was getting a lil jealous there for a moment ...
OMG. My friend had went temporarily insane, left a note on a guy's car, and the guy actually called and talked to him! See, these things DO happen :)
awww paulie babie.....theres nothing wrong bout being a romantic...i guess thats what makes us us.....i mean wheres the fun of going out with someone when you are not secretly yearning for him to take you for a moonlit walk and hug you closer when it gets chilly....i guess deep down we are all romantic even though sometimes reality leaves a bite so deep on our ass we seem to lose faith in our dreams... yes sappy is my second name!!!
Speaking of romance . . . I really appreciate the second installment of "Coriander." It's very promising -- it seems to have at least a little of all your favorite devices. Yummy extra testosterone guy, yummy straightlaced Chinese guy (extra yum), and all the sparks-flying stuff. I'm looking forward to more.
By the way: I have something online now, too:
The Donor: hard to characterize it: if I said it was a gay romance with a vampire in it, you'd get the wrong idea, and if I said it takes place in San Francisco in 1985 you'd think it was an AIDs story, and it's not that either. I've got three chapters up, and I'm putting up about three chapters in two weeks -- it's already complete, I just have to transcribe it word by word.
See. you're a role model!
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