curbdrop out of grace

"the ashtray said you were up all nite"

i just got back from borders with yount. i purchased two books:

1. reflexology for dummies
2. sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs

i'm predicting that they will remain unread and in my car for about 2 months before i finally do a thing about it.

and i was thinkning how funny it is so much of my life along with everyone's life is centered around relationships, specifically "love". it's funny to me because we try to figure everything out and make things perfect, as if perfection were attainable and as if there are even things to figure out. everyone's assuming that there's an answer to the problem. who said there's a solution.

a + b = agony

lennon said it best when he said "god is a concept by which we measure our pain". i once wrote this short story (about 22 pages?) about love, and i think the beginning of my story was a twist on lennon's statement. i wrote something like "love is a concept by which we measure our pain". isn't that the truth? i need to find that short story and reread what i wrote.

and it's so funny that we're trying to figure out everything about relationships and being civil about it all, based on the fact we lived in an organized society now. however, realistically, we're only a few centuries removed from raping and pillaging. how are we supposed to all of a sudden, in a condensed time frame, organize relationships now? we're combating both time, biology, and the truth of human nature that people are just another form of animal and we're all really assholes.

and those thoughts have been with me for a long time, but i was reminded when i was at borders at yount wanted to look at the newest cosmo. i asked her, isn't every issue of cosmo about the same damn crap: advice on relationships?

and so because of the topic, it's no wonder why the magazine is so popular as so many people search for answers that don't exist. and think about it, if the tips that were in cosmo were really that great and universally worked for everyone... if they were ACTUAL solutions, then why does cosmo come out monthly with similar tip topics? the answer is again, there is no such solution and the tips are like gossip: bullshit.

and if there were such answers, do you really think some shite magazine would unveil the final solution? if they did, no one would need to buy more than one issue? they'd be shooting themselves in the foot.

if the solutions were really out there, cosmo should come out with a novel or a one-sheeter or whatever it may be and sell the damn book for $10,000. i think people would be willing to pay for this one-time cost.

i gave my boss my blog address because she asked for it (also did i already write about this?). anyway it'll be interesting to see if she does actually read this and what she thinks about all this crap, pun intended (i did recently have like 3 postings about poop).

posted by fillshe @ 3:57 PM