Sunday, 22 January 2012

A SHORT STORY ABOUT LOVE




After all the lies become unbearable, you begin to wonder just how much truth been spoken, then as all the "agony aunts" would say it is time for goodbyes.

If we put so much faith into these wise old ladies, of various press pages, then why am I so completely indifferent towards the whole situation that I find myself in at this present time in my life?
Oh times have been difficult for me over the last few months of my love life and being the pessimist that I really am, I say to myself endlessly that everything will sort itself out.

Yes but it always does, we all have problems in our lives, I am really no individual.
Just look at Mavis and her John, why he has been having an affair for at least two years and she only found this out after a longer time than I mine.

Only after one and a half years of his screwing around did she cotton on that he had never belonged to any Gentleman's Sports Club. The beautiful body he had developed was not from pushing iron, but simply from being adored by some other dame, and their sexual games played on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons.

How was she to know that when he said he was tired from been at 'gym', he really meant Sally. Where did it leave her, after all the screaming and shouting, hurt and rejection, guilt and empty promises?
Now she keeps the house, and he sees the children on Tuesdays, Thursdays and yes, Saturday afternoons.


He now lives in a rented apartment above the butcher in Willesden Green, and has to face the life of the bachelor.
At closing time, desperately asking the barmaid if she'd join him for a coffee at some all night joint, he knows of downtown. He can't stand going back to the empty room which has not been cleaned for a week, the sitting there all alone wondering where it all went so completely wrong.

I assure you that this man is just lonely with no other connotations. So what was it really worth?

Is this a drama on male narcissism, or had sex really left the marriage, or has it anything to do with boredom.

In a recent survey, it was said that 3000 married men in this day and age had affairs, it did not go on to say how may married men there were, but to no avail, because it still gives a woman hope.

Well if so many married men need to go elsewhere for stimulation, then it does not matter if my George is doing the same. Maybe, this is just part of my post-feminist philosophy, or my greater fear of living alone.

Is it worth losing the mortgage, the joint bank-account, use of the car on weekends for shopping, plus his plastic money? Just because my man needs to fulfil his sexual appetite!

Is that so wrong - in a world full of so many natural disasters, nuclear warfare, unemployment, rising rates and taxes, and the constant chatter of war - or am I basically a masochist...as Billy Holiday rambles on…..

"It cost me a lot, but there one thing that I've got, that’s my man,
Cold and wet, tired you'll bet all of this I'll soon forget with my man.
Two or three girls has he that he likes as well as me, but I love him.
I don't know why I should, he isn't true........what can I do?"

Oh yes, Miss Holiday you had it right all the time.

MedusaMoon  ã 2012

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