In the vending machine light...
January 27, 2005
Well, Ghost World was a little trip back to highschool. And then a reminder that I don't have to travel that far back to get there. Like all movies that feature an oddly attractive girl with a bitterly sarcastic sense of humor, thick-rimmed glasses and short dark hair (of which there are a suprising number that I've picked from Netflix recently - unconciously, I swear), I was reminded of her.
This is more for me than it is for you and, unlike most of my posts after I left, definitely not for her.
It's been two months since I've spoken to or heard from her. I'm kinda impressed with the self control I've put in to keeping from thinking about it but I almost feel like I'm avoiding everything that might remind me of her and it's not the way to live. They say that you can't really get over someone until you love someone else and I believe it. Until that day, however, I'll be carrying around that knot in my stomach that is created when someone goes from meaning everything to me to meaning nothing in such a short period of time. There is a certain peace from knowing that I'll never give her that chance again, though. It's all ego really. I hold myself somewhere high enough in my mind that keeping myself from her deprives her of some greater feeling.
Comments
not to overshadow or ignore the "personal" section of your post, but do check out Daniel Clowes's comic of the same title. It definitely brought that movie into a new realm for me, one frought with lots of personal shit as well.
Posted by: darwin | January 28, 2005 6:52 AM