TMI? probably..

9/23/2010
It’s been a kind of weird and wonderful time. Working out this past week has been extremely therapeutic. This extra attention to my body and my health is just the thing I need to bounce back into the swing of things. At the same time it’s been a crazy bi-polar up and down lonely week, and I find myself randomly having the urge to reach out to certain people.
I’ve been thinking about the Little Prince all week. In the story, this prince from another planet crashes his plane on earth and has to get back to tend to his rose. Along the way he meets all different sorts of animals, including the narrator a human who become attached to the prince one way or another. The prince encounters a wild fox, who he progressively “tames.” When the time comes for the prince to go, the fox, now tamed follows him.
There’s a whole parallel with how the fox now loves the prince, and how taming is synomous with love in away, we become domesticated, enlightened, or however you want to look at it, by our love for another person.
I think it’s funny because, when you think about how single people, including myself, love to assert their independence, freedom, especially in the manner that, we’re single and ready to go crazy, you really do see people in relationships as “tamed.” But what I’m trying to get at, is how really we all want to be tamed. To belong to someone, or something. It’s the consistency that we detest and also crave. It’s nice knowing that there is someone who would care if you fell off the face of the planet.
Obviously, not that single people don’t have friends or aren’t loved, but all the stupid day to day rituals couples do, that are both endearing and disgusting, it’s a form of constant connection with another human being, good or bad however you want to look at it. I maintain, a good thing, more than half the time, because we were made to be social creatures. I could go off on another tangent, but I’m so tired I can’t see straight. X.x