Our blog is titled Absence Makes the Heart. At the time I was just looking for an interesting title, but given that it’s Love Week, it seems like a good time to talk about the deeper meaning (not that there really is one). They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I think that’s true. When someone is absent we’re able to romanticize them. We forget the bad (or the good), and accentuate the positive (or the negative). It’s worth remembering that it’s really not only good things. I can recall plenty of people from my past who I have to be making worse than they were, unless my school was full of sociopaths. (Funny story; it was, but they’re not the people I’m talking about.)
At the same time there are friends and closer that are ‘absent’ now, who I remember with nothing but love, but I know in some more objective part of me were walking disasters. Our relationships were never remotely stable, and every time we’d drift apart we’d end up back together because of how well we’d remember things going, only for them to melt down again. Funny how that works.
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