I don't know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.
It makes me nervous.
I don't say the right things
or perhaps I start
to examine,
evaluate,
compute
what I am saying.
If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"
and she says, "I don't know,"
I start thinking : Does she really like me?
In other words
I get a little creepy.
A friend of mine once said,
"It's twenty times better to be friends
with someone
than it is to be in love with them."
I think he's right and besides,
it's raining somewhere, programming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
That's all taken care of.
BUT
if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
"Do you think it's going to rain?"
and I say, "It beats me,"
and she says, "Oh,"
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky,
I think : Thank God, it's you, baby, this time
instead of me.
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This is absolutely amazing. It's so true! He's so honest and open about it. He tells how awkward people are about liking others; this is exactly how people act! They read into everything the person does or says and their life hinges on what another person does or says to them. It IS creepy, that's for sure. He had it right.
When he said he knew the rain was programmed somewhere, keeping snails happy, I about melted. He knew he'd find really love somewhere; maybe not yet, but eventually, and he knew it'd happen and everything would be great. Yet he was still glad when he didn't like anyone, when it was someone else who was being awkward and having a hard time dealing with someone else totally smitten. It is a lot better to be the one doing the smittening than to be the one that's smitten.
I think I should have used a different word in place of "smitten."
Oh well. Too late. -
Huh, that's it. I liked it sooo much!
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