It's happened, I am officially the victim of SYMPATHY - which, let's be honest, is much more deadly than a broken heart.
If another person sends me an 'uplifting' email, if another sleazy man rubs my arm and offers his shoulder (or cock) to cry on, if another friend sends me inspirational poetry or offers me a self-help book I think my head will explode!
I'm so infected with the dreaded sympathy disease I almost bought MYSELF 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' at the recent markets.
Aaargh!
It's not that I don't appreciate it. I do. My friends have been incredible and the chance to talk and write and blog honestly has lifted a weight off my heart but...well, come on now!
It's all just a bit too much.
So I've found some of my own applicable quotes - touching, sometimes humorous, and probably all I need for now, thankyou.
Here goes...
Parting is all we know of heaven
And all we need of Hell.
Emily Dickinson
Love makes the time pass.
Time makes love pass.
French Proverb
Love and war are the same thing, and strategems and policy are as allowable in the one as the other.
Cervantes
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
The heart has its reasons,
of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost.
G K Chesterton
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
Love is like pi - natural, irrational and very important.
Lisa Hoffman
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Mae West
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
So there...it's ok!
I'm reading the books, pinning up poetry on my fridge and talking to my counsellor.
I haven't drowned in misery yet but I'm definitely treading water in this flood of sympathy.
Please, everyone who's out there listening, if you see me on the street or get a strung-out phone call late at night, don't send me any more sympathy...send me a few laughs. That's what's really missing in my life right now.
...and maybe an occasional cold vodka delivered by a hot male underwear model.
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