Lived it through

The older I get, the more life repeats itself.  There's the drama of the boy with the faithful girlfriend, who spends too much time with another, more sparkly girl, idealizing both her and family to a point where he neglects his always-there-for-him girlfriend.  She sits at home alone, bored, while he socializes with Sparkly Girl, her friends and her family.  But there's a comeuppance coming, and a hard fall from grace soon after that.  It's as inevitable as the spring grass


 There's another boy, this one in love with a girl who is somebody else's girlfriend.  She meets the boy in secret, complaining about how unhappy she is and how she's going to leave the boy she's currently with, which gives the first boy a kind of vapor-like, desperate hope that she will turn to him next, as she's done in the past.  But time and again, it goes nowhere.  It's a secret meeting, promises, and then nothing.


Two situations, repeated in various ways throughout time.  200 years ago, these situations were happening somewhere on the planet, and 200 years in the future (assuming our species is still here) it will still be happening somewhere.  I can give advice, but some things you just have to live through to really understand.


I'm just glad I'm finally old enough to understand now.