paradox lies herein (kafkaenthusiast) wrote, @ 2009-06-19 20:32:00

No, This is Not Relapse
After a few minutes of discussing the consequences of “not following the laws of coin-toss” over a tray of french fries, my friend (who shall remain anonymous, as requested, and who shall be referred to as Amigo from here on in) said he spoke to former One.True.Love earlier.

Former One.True.Love according to my friend was wearing a shirt with a Spanish phrase printed on it. Amigo, being fluent in Spanish, told he-who-should-be-mentioned-without-any-romantic-context that he, Amigo, liked the shirt. My friend asked if I wanted to hear what former OTL said, because apparently, it was about me!!! Hello? Rhetorical question? Of course I wanted to hear. The convo went on like this, from what I was told:

“I like your shirt,” said Amigo.
Former OTL didn’t respond immediately. After 3 seconds [yes, I asked Amigo how long this pause lasted] he said “Uhhh… Thank you?”
“What’s with the hesitation?” Amigo asked.
Then this son of a gun said “If you were Yves, saying ‘I like your shirt’ would be like saying ‘I like you’” or something [Amigo had no intention of taking it down verbatim, not that I expected him to, but it would’ve been nice if I was holding proper tiles once I start with this game of wordplay.]

What? I didn’t know what to make of it at first, well, in fact even now I still don’t know what to make of it. Why would he say that?! Of course I egged Amigo on to remember EXACTLY what he said, and how he said it. Was he smiling? Was there any other context? Was there any preceding discussion about me? [“Yes, no and no were the answers, respectively.]

I had no intention of making a big deal out of it [which is obviously a little bit of a lie, as attested by this entry], however, I couldn’t help but wonder (with the sound of fingers pressing on a laptop keyboard), why would he say that? Why now? When I haven’t been doing anything. Seriously. Except for that SMS INCIDENT [which happened over a month ago] but I thought we were wayyy past that? I have even concluded that we have officially repurposed* our relationship into this platonic connection, confirmed by an unspoken celebratory stamp of mutual denial approval. He has become my accountability friend, willing to listen to my updates regarding former One.True.Hobby (the one I gave up a few weeks ago). Or so I thought.

No no no, this is not relapse, I swear.




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*Repurpose = To use or convert for use in another format or product. Also known as the fourth pillar of the R’s of environmentalism, together with Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

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