Love Moments

To gay people who think spinsterhood, (spinsterity, spinsterrorism) is the worst of all punishments and who now spend their days wishing this was that and all that...

The couldves wouldves and shouldves are sometimes their own reason for being, and generate their own brand of happiness. If a tectonic shift in earthly possibilities shakes the cosmos turning perfect tense to present, wow. But that's like waiting for disaster to happen. Earthquakes, are notoriously unpredictable. Like love.

Those who are in the thick of the moment should thank their sponsors (capital G first of all). Millions of people sleepwalk through their days hardly feeling anything except hunger during lunchtime and withdrawal if they decide not to smoke during breaks.

But you, you're in love! It's a very personal thing. Much as we always associate it with an other, that other is simply an object. The rush downhill and soaring highs are all yours, and often your other has absolutely nothing to do with it except be there (or not there as the case may be). In fact, all they need to do is exist.

Treasure the moment.

I'm cynical so I'll say this. We now live in a retail-driven world, because some smart people figured out that the power of a product over the buyer is deprivation. And because we're all so faddish these days, our satiety levels are so shallow. Fash-fash Klum-klum says it all. One day you're in, next day you're out. So while waiting for the inevitable "out-of-love" moment, enjoy the pain of being in.