Oh Elvis, how clever you were!

Have you ever thought about love? Of course you have, because everyone has. You either think about how much you want to be loved, how much you love someone else, or how much love sucks. Most often it's the last of the 3 that we feel. I digress. Why is love so hard? Most of the time we find we love things that are not good for us, or that will ultimately lead to sadness. For example, chocolate, ice cream, pets, boys, best friends...

Stick with me here. Chocolate (for those of you who like it), is addictive, and I am pretty sure it is responsible for upper thigh cellulite dimples. Ice cream, well, I love it so much that there have been times where I buy ice cream instead of gas or groceries, which is not all that healthy. As for pets, the poor things always die, just when you finally decide that they are an indispensable part of your life once you finally get used to them leaving fur and little stinky surprises all over your house. And boys (or girls depending on how your boat floats), sometimes you just can't help falling in love, but then your heart and soul are ripped to shreds when any miniscule little thing happens, or they leave you. Surprisingly, it not only hurts when someone leaves you, but also when you leave them and know you have broken their heart. And best friends? Best friends can be a source of strength and support, but you run the risk of them moving, finding new friends, running out of things in common once you stop taking similar classes, or marriage comes to one member of the friendship and things must change.

But you know, Elvis may have been right when he sang ever so beautifully, "wise men say, only fools rush in, but I cant help falling in love with you". I sing that song at the top of my lungs when I'm in love and it's returned and, well, when it's not, I hold up my Haagen Dazs and spoon and think the words of the song quietly inside. And when people say "You know, you should really eat more greens", meaning spinach or cabbage or broccoli, I say "You're right. Please pass the mint chocolate chip and the scooper please". It's a never-ending-cycle. Fall for something, like chocolate, get disappointed when cellulite becomes more prevalent, so you immediately put away one love onto to fall into another, like finding a boy to make out with so you feel beautiful again, and then he breaks your heart and you rely on ice cream, and the whole cycle repeats over and over and over.


So for now, turn up Elvis and please pass the ice cream... the whole pint of Haagen Dazs if you please!!!