A while ago I wrote a text on how I had never been in a serious relationship, on how *it* had never happened to me. A very fate-oriented text, I must say. It has never happened to me because all the guys I met *happened* to be moving away or *happened* to already be in a relationship. There was nothing I could do to change that… Right?
Now I can actually say that I have an EX-boyfriend. It has not lasted for too long and most of the time I was with him I was actually out of town. But since the beginning, I knew it was going to end, given that he was supposed to move to Canada one or two months after we started dating. But he did not. And rumor has it that he has not moved away because of me. I don’t know, honestly. I only know that after three months, it was not working anymore. Indeed, it has never worked, but I was just waiting for it to start failing for itself.
I have some close friends who say that I’m always looking for relationships with an expiration date. I don’t know exactly what it means of if I do it consciously, but reminding about all my past relationships, yes, they all had an expiration date. Maybe it’s a self-protection thing… if it doesn’t work or if he never calls me again, that was my expectation. And I move on, really quickly. But if he does call me again, well… let’s see how far it’s going to go.
The last guy I was seeing, I knew since the day I met him that he was leaving in a couple of weeks. We would meet everyday, go to the movies, have dinner and all these things that couples do. It was nice, it felt good. But don’t get too close, you know? My head knew he was leaving and it’s prevented me from getting too attached to him. And he’s left and I’m completely fine about it. It’s just like this other guy I met this weekend. He’s got my phone number but has not given me his, deliberately. How am I supposed to wait for a guy like this to call me? So I just don’t.
Nevertheless, there was this one guy who had a girlfriend and I have made the mistake of falling for him. Even though he had an expiration date for the single fact that he was not single, he was kind, lovely, called me everyday, we’d meet everyday… And eventually he broke up with his girlfriend. But then started dating some other girl, not me, and here I am, still sick because I have allowed myself to eat rotten food.
Sometimes the expiration date is right in front of us. Sometimes it’s not. And just because you can’t see it, it doesn’t mean that some relationships don’t cause food poisoning. These, in my humble opinion, are the most dangerous. These are those we never forget. Those that sooner or later will knock us down to the bathroom floor.
