If Love Is A War

… then a mindgame is the “The­monu­clear War” game. Stu­pid lit­tle things that can have dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences. Made even worse by the fact that it can be played in single-​player as well as multi-​player.

If you haven’t heard (which would be sur­pris­ing, because peo­ple were ask­ing me about it prac­ti­cally before I knew about it), Peggy and I broke up. Although it was mostly ami­ca­ble, I think that look­ing back now, I see things that I didn’t see before. Maybe I was blind. Or maybe this is all in my head.

Before Peggy and I got together, I always thought that get­ting that first girl­friend would be the hard­est. If, for some rea­son, it didn’t work out, at least I would have the con­fi­dence of know­ing that there is some­one out there that at least at a cer­tain point in time val­ued me, a mar­ket for my goods does exist (so to speak), and that things would be eas­ier from there on out.

Not so. I’m still the same awk­ward neu­rotic lump as ever. Yay! This is my cue to take a page from Homer’s page and threaten to stab my brain with a Q-​Tip.

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