Thank you, I was waiting for someone to post this! I knew it was just a matter of time, lol.
What’s in Jeff’s heart? Each of these images repeat twice in the same order. The third time through, the royal flush doesn’t appear and the redhead and the sports car appear twice. So in 31 images, we see Annie or parts of Annie 9 times. Not that I’ve studied it intently or anything.
If we could all just agree on you being a bad person, that would just be enabling the easy way out, and telling yet another lie in the process.
Also, I was going to call you Dr. House, but had to admit that you’re not. You vie with him for brilliance and irascible vitriol, but he’s more messed up.
1. I didn’t mean that Erin didn’t love me, or that I didn’t love her, or that we didn’t have love together.
2. I didn’t mean she was ever dishonest.
3. I didn’t mean she was anything less than a perfect girlfriend.
I have emails from Erin that she wrote to me when I was feeling like a…
1. Everyone lies, but that doesn’t mean everyone is a liar. “Liar” implies lying as the person’s default state. To acknowledge that people lie, but to conclude that “everyone is basically a liar” means you’re intentionally being stingy by taking a common shortcoming and bitterly amplifying it into a bigger ugliness than it is. Or, you’re trying ameliorate your own sense of failure by saying, “It’s ok, because everyone does it. Everyone sucks, just like me.” This is cowardice. The great majority of people can’t tell everyone the truth about everything, because they’re afraid. Afraid of judgment, rejection, and consequences. This is called being human, in all its naked, shameful glory. There is no denying it, and there is no reason to justify it. It just is.
2. There are the people who, by default, prefer you to know what they’re thinking, and there are the people who, by default, prefer you not to know. Nobody’s good and nobody’s bad, but it’s possible to intermingle with people who are not in your half of the world and have that outcome be fine. Good, even.
3. I thought Good Will Hunting was a good movie overall, but I cringed at parts of it. But I know you weren’t talking about Good Will Hunting. I agree that it’s nearly impossible for honest people who hated it to minimize contact with dishonest people who loved it, but see #2.
4. There is such a thing as love. There is also infatuation, obsession, addiction, ritualistic, compulsive repetition, and horniness. Why would you conclude that something you haven’t yet experienced doesn’t exist, simply because you haven’t experienced it yet, or can’t imagine experiencing it? There is such a thing as love.
5. Nothing. Everything. Everything.
6. “Every day in a relationship is a lie.” I know you meant, “for me,” although it begs to be read, “for everyone.” It’s only to the latter that I say, It’s possible to have a relationship where every day is not a lie. I know, because I am living in one right now, and have been for the past 6 years. It’s possible to have relationships where most days are truth, where you wake up and don’t wonder what you could have possibly done in this life or any other to deserve this level of good – you don’t wonder, because you already know that the answer is: Nothing. There is nothing I could possibly have done in this life or any other that could have earned me this kind of joy and contentment in love. The happiest years of my life so far were the 5 spent with my husband before we had our baby, and he frequently, unsolicitedly tells and shows me the same. And for context, I love my baby with an intensity and purity that no one else can understand. Who knows what the future will bring. I go to bed grateful, and I wake up grateful.
7. I hated the “apples” scene in Good Will Hunting. I hate that everyone in the theater laughed at it, because it was the lamest joke in the world. When people tell me that they think that joke was funny, I look at them and think, “You have a lame sense of humor.” I also hate that Will’s comeback to Pretentious Michael Bolton Hair Douche was, “Yeah? Well at least I’ll be original.” Congratu-HORRIBLE. I thought Matt Damon and Minnie Driver had zero chemistry, even though they started dating in real life while filming that movie. Also her fellatio joke was embarrassingly stupid, and a waste of beer. When they all laughed at it, I looked at them and thought, “You all have a lame sense of humor.” I thought a bunch of parts of that movie were stupid.
But I liked Good Will Hunting. I liked Matt Damon’s speech about clubbing baby seals. I understood the rage that Robin Williams felt when some prick of a kid tried to denigrate his dead wife’s reputation by crapping all over the one thing he had left that reminded him of her and helped him to deal with her loss. I understood his ability to forgive. I believed it when Matt Damon finally broke, and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t affect me. It was a good movie. It’s possible to dislike parts of something, yet love it as a whole.
And I hated Ben Affleck in that movie. But I can forgive him, as I do the sharks. Because even though he thought he was making things up just to get a woman in bed, it turns out Jeff Winger was right.
8. I love you.
9. I love your show.
Here is the Truth.
Here is the Truth.
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Erin, thank you for posting this. Every good thing I have in me, I’m sending it to you.
I’m all alone in Michigan for one more day. My family has left except for my grandfather, who has to make business calls all day. So there is no phone because my phone doesn’t work here. And dan has blogged this:
1. Everyone is basically a liar, because you can’t possibly…
I don’t think it’s news to many of you. Dan and I broke up. I’ve moved out. He pulled a ripcord I didn’t know he had. Revealed he can’t have kids after all. He’s too afraid he’ll screw them and me up. I maintain that if he wanted to work on it, he could be the guy we’d need, but the only thing he…
“I have to try my best to seem as sane and stable as possible, which rules out constant journaling of every embarrassing ping and ricochet inside my rusting hull.”
Dan, we love every embarrassing ping and ricochet inside your “rusting hull.”
Before I knew how to talk to people in real life (coworkers will tell you I never actually learned) I learned to talk to people on the internet. I was 14, I had an old TRS-80 from my Dad’s office, and, at night, I would use it with a direct connect 300 baud modem to call a “citizen’s band…
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