Confrontation is worth the end result.

They say that there is a time and place for everything, but when is the time and place to break up with someone? I ask not because I am intrested in performing this act that we all dread, but only because I have seen too many people in relasionships that should be ended, myself included at one time or another in my life.

In this era of technology and social networking, I wonder how many people have been dumped, via facebook or a text message or by another impersonal means. I would like to say to those people who did the dumping in that fashion that that is just in bad taste, and is by all means the cowardly way out of a situation. If you have spent time with another person and have developed feelings and shared intimate moments, than you at the very least owe that person the common decency of a face to face conversation. Don't take the easy way out, man up and do the right thing.

Of course on the flip side, you have the people that just stay in stagnant, unfullfilled relasionships because they cannot or do not want to have that conversation, that confrontation and it is somehow easier to just stay unhappy and live in the comfort zone, rather than do the thing that you both know you need to do and move on. I have been guilty of this myself, so I speak from personal experience when I say, get out. Life is too short to be unhappy.

And worse still are kids that are forced to live in an environment of misery because their parents are staying together "for the sake of the kids". It doesn't really work out to that, if the kids end up learning to be miserable and in turn have a jaded outlook on love, because they see their parents in what they call love, but everyone knows is just comfort and cowardess. Kids thrive in a happiness, and if that happiness is acheived by their parents living apart, I say better to be happy and apart then together and miserable. The ends justify the means.

Don't get me wrong, I am not an advocat for break ups, I am an advocat for happiness. I just figure if you know you could be happier with someone else, then you should take that route. If children are involved, than yes, you really need to take a good hard look at yourself and the situation and see if moving on is truly what you want or if it is just a passing phase of hardship. We all go through those, no relasionship is easy, none are roses and rainbows and sunshine and lollipops, but there are times when they should be.. not all the time.. but if you are never experiecing the brighter side, then you really have to ask yourself if you are ok with living yourself in the shadow of what could be.

Faulty 14th

Oh it is almost that time of year again, when Hallmark and other corporations tell you that the 14th is THE day to confess your love and devotion, and of course the only way to do this is with overpriced flowers (marked up just for this romatic of all days) diamonds and for the less fortunate who are alone and depressed, chocolate.

Call me crazy, you definately wouldn't be the first; but I thought that love was a year long ordeal, something that you feel everyday of your life, and likewise should be celebrated everyday of your life, one way or another. However, it seems to be socially acceptable to treate your significant other like dirt one the 13th of February, call them a douchebag on the 15th, but as long as you buy them a card and some roses on the 14th all is hunky dory. I am not sure where the logic is in all of this, but then again, Im also not sure how naked angels get involved in this holiday either.

If you hapen to be single on this day, ohhh the horror! It is almost mandatory to watch romantic movies, eat ice cream and cry yourself to sleep... uh... what? How can one single day have such an affect on us? If you are single, embrace it. If you are naive enough to celebrate this day, celebrate it by loving yourself, one should never need another to validate ones self, especially because Hallmark said you should. Man up people!

Love is a many splendid  thing, but it's worth should not be, cannot be, put up against diamonds, flowers, chocolates, and edible underwear.. well maybe the latter..

Changes in Zodiac Signs

Astrologers have decided that after thousands and thousands of years, that there is now a new zodiac sign. There are not more important things that they could be using their time for, you know like looking for comets that may collide with earth, no they have to look for a way to piss of the general population of this planet.
What I find very intresting is how attached people really are to the Zodiac sign, as if the sign is what defines them. " I am an Aries and always will be..." ok well although I applaud your loyalty to your sign, you are actually no longer an Aries. This is not a choice that you were given in the first place, you birthdate chooses this for you, and it has decided that you are now a kitten, or a girafe or some other shit.
I am curious to know why people are taking this as a personal attack and are getting so riled up about it. People, people please. You are who you are, regardless of zodiac sign.. maybe for some of you this will  be an improvement in your life, hey if it wasn't working out for you as a Picses maybe now as a Gemini you can get that job, get a girlfriend and finally move out of mom's house... and if not wait around another thousand years and maybe you'll get a third shot, that is is the astrologers quit wasting their time and find that comet...