Always There

I feel like Elmer Fudd. I’m chasing Bugs Bunny and he just keeps getting away. Sometimes the barrel of my shotgun will be pressed right up on his nose, but somehow he will escape. Am I a bad hunter? Or is Bugs just too slick for me?

                I see people with that girl or guy that they used to have something with and they just keep popping back into their lives. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? If you’re single you know you always have that one person you can call. If you’re in a relationship you know there is that one person that could ruin it at any time. But still, there is an utter refusal to banish these people from our lives. What is our obsession? Are we that desperately in need of a security blanket? Do we always need a plan B? To me it feels like plan B only distracts from plan A. However, if you only ever focus on doing one thing at a time, you will only ever do one thing. Is this fallback person an attempt to master the art of multi tasking?

                Why do we bother getting into relationships when we have this other person waiting somewhere? Why do we bury these people in the back of our minds and dig them up when it is convenient for us? Why do we refuse to acknowledge that our acts of selfishness are capable of hurting others more than we think? It could be a first love, it could be a first sexual partner, maybe a first kiss, but more often than not there is someone that will tell you they will always have feelings for you. You may reciprocate, you may not, but whatever you do in this situation is almost certainly the truth. If you say you will always have feelings, those feelings will never fade and you will allow the person you feel so deeply about to drift in and out of your life at their leisure. If you say you don’t feel this way, you will get so frustrated at them when they continue to pop up.

                Some of us are not as lucky as others. We stand alone without reciprocation as we deliver our heart and soul to our love interest. They treat us well but they do not feel the same. You wait for what seems like forever for your chance but it never comes. Is it the friend zone or is it something else? Is it better or worse than the friend zone? Do you remain optimistic and cling to a strange hope that you gave yourself, or do you give up? You know how strongly you feel about this person and how those feelings will never change. But you also know deep down that nothing will ever be made of it. What do you do? Do you continue to generate the false hope that you have generated for so long? Do you take comfort in hope? Or do you take closure in reality?

                No matter how great a hunter someone is, they will always meet their Bugs Bunny. That vision of rabbit stew will never quite become the meal you want it to be. While your target is always in sight, it is always just out of range. So do you choose to starve? Or do you hunt different game? Siwwy Wabbit.