..Love Sick..

Its only september and already the first colds, flues and achey sicknesses are beginning to take their toll on us all.
With each little tiny change in the transition from season to season comes a new.. fun.. disgusting little surprise.. determined to keep us bed ridden for the best season of the year.. fall!
My favorite right now? Ya.. i have pneumonia! Suuper fun. So. while i get lots of rest.. drink lots of fluids.. and take these hard drugs my lovely doctor wrote me up for trying to get over my fickle fall sickness.. i figured we should cure some sicknesses plaguing our hearts as well.

1. The common creeper.

We're gonna address both sides of this issue.. tackling the symptoms from both ends in order to exterminate these little buggers.
I believe in being nice to every human being on the planet. I love befriending anyone and everyone. Kindness is something that everyone deserves.. however. I feel like growing up a lot of us have been fed a skewed image of kindness. ..'be nice no matter what'..and 'kill them with kindness'.. have been bent into.. 'you cant say no'.. and 'avoid confrontation altogether'.
When someone approaches you... or stalks you... you don't HAVE to say yes to going out with them. If a creeper is creepin.. avoid him and don't give him reasons to think you're leading him on!
Girls... just say NO. You can say no in a nice way! But you need to make sure that your message is clear. If homie with his pants up to his eyebrows.. lovely stache.. and a knack of running into you in a premeditated fashion comes at you with full force... you going along with his skewed fantasy of you two making tragically creepy young ones is hurting BOTH of you... you may be taking one for your own team to add another brick to your heaven mansion... but you're also leading him in a direction that will soon be completely taken out of his compass.. most likely leaving him even more emotionally damaged than if you would've initially... nicely.. backed out of a situation.

I was in an english class last semester when a girl that worked at the police station told us a story of a girl that had come in the previous week.
Jane had just moved into a new college town and was determined to make friends.. she was the sweetest girl alive so she didn't exactly have a huge challenge ahead of her.
Her new neighborhood came with a new church ward, new home teachers (male visitors assigned to check up on her and give her gospel related lessons), and new room mates.
Her new home-teacher Chuck was a straight creeper. he started by showing up at her apartment unannounced.. being there when she got home.. calling her every night.
She initially gave off the vibe that she wasn't interested.. but when he continued to pursue her.. she didn't want to hurt his feelings.
One day he text her and told her that he had a surprise for her and to let him know when she was home... she coordinated with a room mate to make sure she had someone there with her.. but when she got home.. he was waiting for her, and her room mate was still in class. He insisted that they start her 'surprise' right away..
He told her he had made a scavenger hunt for her.. starting in another area of their apartment complex. She followed him to the common room.. where she found a big box with her name on it.
When she went to open the box... he. pulled. out. a TAZOR!! She blacked out for a couple seconds.. and when she came-to he was trying to HANDCUFF HER!!! uhh.. hello!!!!
She waited 3 days to go to the cops about it because she 'didn't want to make him feel bad'.

Girls... don't be this dumb. If you get the creeper vibe... avoid your own tragedy by stopping the homie in his tracks.

Boys.. the sad reality of this world is.. the difference between a straight creep.. a tool.. and a persistent fellow.. is the level of attractiveness and swag they bring to their creeping.

I'm not saying the attractive creepers aren't creepers... they just tend to get away with it more.
If y'all haven't taken my 'tool box test'.. you should. a lot of the tool-like attributes cross over to creeper status.
Vitamins for your poor souls...
Don't resend texts when a girl doesn't write back.. if you sent it... SHE GOT IT.. sending it again isn't gonna make her write back any quicker.
Don't text her and call her every. single. night. if she has shown no interest in you... you can only put forth so much effort without her reciprocating it before you get put in the creeper box. knock it off.
When you're doin your thang.. Don't leave a fb stalking trail.. where's the fun in that?

So. its hard to tell girls to stop creepin.. cuz the truth of the matter is... a girl creeper.. is just desperate. If he's not interested in you.. there's no way that he's perfect for you.
If you fall into this category.. even though there was an oil spill.. there's STILL plenty of fish in the sea.. quit creepin and move on. He's married knock it off.. - wait what? ooh right. that's just at byu.

So.. the cure? Stop leading the creepers on.. grow some guts and let them know that you're not interested.. and homies.. quit creepin. have a very honest evaluation of your flirting.. pursuing.. and pouncing tactics.. look yourself in the mirror and decide 'am i a creeper'? if you are.. nobody likes those. Knock it off.

2. Hopelessly Devoted

I've always thought of love as a tug-of-war... a little give.. a little take.. finding the balance.. picking your battles.. surrendering the upper hand.. taking control... caring more.. caring less.. back and forth back and forth back and forth..
That sometimes you are running.. and sometimes you are chasing..
That at the end of the day, everything works itself out.
I've grown up believing the fairy tale of love.. and everything that goes along with it.

I never understood the phrase 'falling in love alone'.. i just figured that if someone was dumb enough to fall without someone catching them.. that they had no idea what love was.. so therefore they weren't 'falling in love alone'.. they were just bungee jumping without a cord. retards.

In sports.. there are individual events.. like track.. and.. bowling.. but in love.. if you run with no one chasing you.. what the heck are you doing...? if you're chasing something that never has any intention of stopping.. either your legs will fall off.. or you'll die of a heart attack in the middle of the love road somewhere... alone.
If you play the love tug-of-war by yourself... you just fall on your butt.

I've always believed that everything that is supposed to work out.. will. But what if something ISN'T working out that you want to?? what do you do?
How long can you hang on to something without needing to see a shrink?

I dont' think its possible to fall out of love with someone.. how ever unfortunate this realization is. That person, however, CAN be replaced.

My cure for 'hopelessly devotedness' : Be on top of the world! I know saying 'replace that love dummy' is waaay easier said than done.. so. when in drought.. replace it with yourself! Not in the tool box conceded.. love yourself to death kind of way.. but in the actual bettering your self and soul.. true self worth kind of way.

My friend Winston had dated this girl Laci forever. It ended in a pretty bad break up.. i'm talkin.. him in the middle of the street.. on his knees.. sobbing.. screaming.. heart wrenching.. life changing.. break up.
After this break up.. they did the.. occasionally see each other.. most likely hook up.. and then go their separate ways.. him always wanting her.. her always something more than what he was.. until he finally caught the vision that if he realllllly wanted to be with her... he couldn't do the 'casually run into each other thing' until something had significantly changed.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result... and he was tired of going crazy.
After working his BUTT off for 9 months with out scratching his Laci itch that came every so often.. he started really getting places in his life.
He found himself with a deal in his hands with one of the biggest music distributing companies in the country.. (oh ya.. i forgot to tell you.. he's a rock star)
As he walked out of this meeting with tour dates.. cash to burn.. and a serious ego boost.. he decided to call Laci..
she agreed to meet up with him and go to lunch. Of course at this lunch she saw his success.. his rock hard body.. and his new found confidence and wanted him in a heart beat..
He however had found something out about himself. He didn't need someone that waited for him to be good enough to be with her.. he needed someone that loved him for being him.. in any state.
When he was on TOP of his game.. he finally realized... he didn't want her back.
Hopelessly devotedness CURED! When you are at your best you make MUCH clearer decisions than when you're struggling with your own self worth. After getting out of relationships that make you feel unwanted and like crap... you need the time to replace that love with something you love to do. It will help your independence.. it will help your confidence.. and your added boost of yourself will make you more attractive. so there. take your medicine. you will be cured.

3. Heebie Jeebie Newbie Cooties

Everyone that gets out of a relationship faces this last one. When your relationship season changes from 'taken' to 'broken' aka 'single'.. you don't like the fact that you're not comfortable with the dudes and chicks you're going out with... these Newbies aren't like your old boyfriend or girlfriend... they don't know that when they say 'legit' you vomit silently.. they don't know that when you say 'stop tickling me' you mean.. STOP EFFING TICKLING ME BEFORE I PUNCH YOU IN THE GONADS.
The worst is when you start to actually like someone.. and you HATE IT. You give yourself the heebie jeebies because.. what the FREAK are you doing?!

Re.LAX. everything is new at one point or another.. dont put so much thought into who has the upper hand.. who says what first.. who calls who first... if you like each other.. you need to knock it off and get out of your own way! Go into it thinking.. this will most likely work out.. instead of.. this most likely WONT work out. Allow yourself to let your guard down.. get the wiggles out.. this new thing.. if you can actually give it a chance.. could very soon turn into a natural.. regular.. not-so-new thing.

Prescription..? Plenty of rest for your mind and your butterflies. Knock it off. you're fine. You have to give SOMEONE a chance.

Every sickness has a cure. Our bodies are perfect machines designed to fix and repair themselves. Our hearts are the same way... every heart ache.. uncomfortable moment.. and sniffle we run into has a remedy.. Our hearts are programed for love. Let yourself love and be loved. By yourself as well as by someone else.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away... A blog a day keeps callymon sane.

Here's to the next few days of drugs.. vicks vapor rub.. orange juice.. and cough medicine.
Cheers.
Until Later..
xoxo
-Callymon