INFATUATIONS: April Issue

Happy Easter everyone!!

Hope you're all having a lovely holiday and digging into all that yummy chocolate.
Just a sneak peak of what's to come for my Infatuations blog:

Road Less Travelled

As Robert Frost says:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

We are filled with decisions every day of our life, some small decisions (like what to eat for breakfast), and some big decisions (like what career pathway we should take).

Being the second child in the family, I'm not sure if it's a good thing or bad thing.
Actually, I think it's neither. It's what you make out of it.

What I mean when I say about whether it being a good or bad thing is how it affects my ability to make decisions between different paths I want to take in life, my ability to take risks.

I have an older brother who paves a way for me to walk on. I could follow him and everything would be (quite) foreseeable and smooth. Or I could risk it and take 'the one less traveled', the unknown.

Boys are Boys

I think I finally understand the reason why my mum has always told me not to date anyone until I'm old enough.
Boys are boys, confused and stupid.

Stupid in a way that hurts us girls instead of themselves.
They just don't know what they want, what they need and how to go around finding out the answer.
In their confusion they just end up playing with us.
They flirt intensely with you, you think they like you, you think they want something out of it.

But it turns out they don't know what they want from you. So it just stays in that awkward stage of uncertainty resulting in an emotional mess.

Vika IV

by *YuliaSpesivtseva

I'm starting to really respect guys who just know what they want. Who would just tell a girl he likes her and wants her to be his girlfriend. Just straight up. Instead of playing around, flirting, then doing nothing. A boy did that to me once (told me straight up), I got angry that he did it. But I shouldn't have been angry. I was angry at the fact that I gave him no signs at all that I liked him back and he just went forth to tell the whole world he liked me, ruining our 'friendship'. But now I respect him for that. Unlike some other guys, at least he was honest and forthcoming.

Why is it that the guy I don't like is the honest one and the guy I do like isn't. It just can't work out perfectly can it. It's the issue of timing. Obviously this guy I like is not the destined one.

He's confused, he's young, he's flirty.
All that thinking, I thought he wanted me. His signs, confused signs from a confused boy.    

Expectations & Betrayal

The thought finally entered my head. The point of 'dating' is not to make it impossible to fall apart. It's a trial, to see if two people really are meant to be together forever. Otherwise why don't people just get married once they have feelings for each other.

unempty

by ~wendy-in-neverland

By going through the 'dating' stage you find out if two people are really meant for each other. If things don't work out, they can go off on their own ways and continue on the search for someone that truly is compatible with them. If things don't work out, it shouldn't be a sad thing. The sad thing is when you are betrayed. As Shontelle sings:

Falling out of love is hard
Falling for betrayal is worst
Broken trust and broken hearts

That's why you should think before you fall. I'm starting to overcome my fear of falling after realising this. The mindset to be in at the beginning of a relationship is not to be 100% sure it will work out but be able see a high possibility that it will work out but still know that there is that small percentage that it won't. When you don't expect it to fall apart, that's when it really hurts. So to expect it acts as a safeguard.

Here's where I disagree with some people's opinions. They believe that 'dating' will allow them to find themselves, that's why they encourage dating a lot of people. B*tch please, find yourself on your own, don't use other people's emotions to find yourself.

In Shontelle's song Impossible the reason it hurts so much for her is because she thought it was impossible, she didn't expect it.

I started analysing this by applying it to the tragic love stories I've witnessed, that has given me this phobia of being in a committed relationship.

Cousin 1 who lost her boyfriend because he listened too much to his parents. They were about to get married but his parents didn't like her. He split up with her and within months he was getting married to a girl introduced to him by his parents. Betrayed that's why it hurts. It wasn't predictable that the loyalty to his parents would come off as a negative thing, but the true cause behind this tragic split was not his loyalty to his parents, but his merciless trait to be able to split up with a girl like that. An ending like this couldn't be foreseeable by anyone. Nothing could have prevented this, unless there were signs she, herself, should have been able to see in him which I highly doubt. When a boy loves a girl to the point of wanting to marry her, it's impossible to see that he is capable of unloving her so mercilessly. That's why we should take caution when it comes to love. On the optimistic side, she was lucky to have split up with him sooner than later, the pain would be even worse if they had married and she found out about his horrid side then.

Cousin 2 who lost her boyfriend because he fell out of love with her. She still loved him when he unloved her. What probably hurt her was that she didn't expect him to unlove her when he intensely pursued her in the beginning. Then there's the betrayal, the fact that now that he 'has' her, she gives him her love and he suddenly doesn't want it anymore, but also the fact that she gave him her precious youth and he threw it away. Seven years. Seven years of a girl's youth. Gone. He obviously didn't understand the preciousness of that. Chinese girls aren't like Western girls, their value plummets to nothing when they hit 30. He should have made up his mind whether they were compatible in the first few years. Try not to not be yourself when in a relationship because there is only so long that you can not be yourself. I guess seven years was the time for him to finally realise he either doesn't like the fake him or the real her. Always saying yes to everything she/he wants, pretending he/she enjoys something just because she/he likes it. That's the pursuit stage when you force yourself to be compatible with someone just to 'have' them, but the thing is... this stage won't last long and people will be themselves again and whether you like this real them or not is the deciding factor of the success of the relationship. That's why relationships that start off as two people being true friends have a higher chance of succeeding, you get to know the real them.

60 Sec of Us

I think I finally get what the idea behind the music video of 60 sec by Kim Sunggyu is. Because I found myself going through it.

My interpretation: 60 seconds is enough for you to experience a long complex relationship with them. When everything happens in your head. Your mind imagining how you pursue them (or get pursued), imagining the beautiful happy times with them, and then imagining the fighting, then eventually imagining the breakup. Going through this in your mind you give up on the thought of even beginning with this person. You walk away from them, as an act to avoid the possible hurt you would experience with them.

That's me, a 'flight-risk'. I runaway at the thought of a relationship, of commitment, of putting my fragile emotions in the hands of a stranger.

The lyrics doesn't have this message, the lyrics expresses how 60 seconds is enough to tell the story of them, of what really did in fact happen between them.

love letters II.

by ~magnesina

This is just my view of the story of the music video alone.

Recently my mind has been playing like a movie in my mind, or like the music video above. I imagined myself get pursued by him, the first time, filled with butterflies in the stomach. Then I imagined our happy crazy times, how we would own the dance floor together because we both love to dance, and our cute moments together in each other's arms, feeling his warmth and protection.

He Lost 'Heart'

So glad I took it slow.
Found out his previous relationship (which was also his first) ended because of him.
Because he lost 'heart'.
That's not something a girl like me wants to hear.

Me: insecure, a 'flight risk, afraid of falling'.

He said he feels like he's being judged after he told me. I can't help it.
My view of him does change in relation to him as a possible boyfriend.

Castles in the Clouds

by ~applesttar

He told me he felt like I was judging him. I didn't want to make him sad so I tried to cheer him up without lying. I don't like to lie.
So I told him it didn't change how I saw him as a friend, that he's still a very nice, very thoughtful, very fun person to be around.
Which I guess works well both ways.
- If he saw me as a possible girlfriend then yes, he'll know how things do change and he should be more careful with me if he intends to pursue me in the future.
- If he saw me simply as a new friend then that should cheer him up, he shouldn't be sad anymore.

He's a confusing one. Being raised in a household dominated by males, my knowledge of them surprisingly does not help in this situation. He's not the typical boy, and I guess that's why I like him (neither am I the typical girl).
He keeps complimenting me but he compliments a lot of other girls too. Without even being in a relationship with him, I feel insecure already...

Random moments I feel like I have misunderstood everything, misunderstood his compliments and his kind gestures. Other moments I feel like I haven't because he said certain things that don't sound like he would say to anyone else. He told me personal things about his family and told me not to tell anyone else...

Queen B

My role model, my inspiration.

She's only 31 and...

She has the career

She has the husband