LivingTodayInThePresent

Shakespeare could not have said it any better through Puck, his tongue in cheek character from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Lord, what fools we mortals be!” And indeed, only love can turn sane, logical and intelligent people into weepy, devastated blithering idiots. You can’t learn love but you live it and you can’t talk your way out of being in love no matter how good you are in public speaking or writing.

They say that intelligent people are the ones who are dumbest (and unluckiest) in love. After all, who needs a brain when a person falls in love? There is after all, “love at first sight” so logic rarely if ever plays a part in the phenomenon of falling in love. So in a way, simple people are lucky because they just “feel” it– smart and complicated people on the other hand spend too much time nitpicking, analyzing, worrying and trying to comprehend whether or not they have indeed fallen in love (or had a mental breakdown).

My bestfriend, Gus and I describe ourselves as simple people with complicated thoughts so while we fall in love like the rest of the mortal race– we also tend to overanalyze. We overcomplicate cut and dried matters because we don’t want to be “fools in love”. And more often then not, we end up being each other’s movie date. *sobs*

So last Sunday, after a movie of non-stop action and booty shots (which was endless!)– Gus and I discussed our views on love and how it changed since our college days. Back then, we were both hopeless romantics out to find the “ONE”. The process was fairly easy but finding the prince among frogs was another story. Read the rest of this entry »