Speaking tonight to a friend currently suffering from her own form of relationship-related emotional turmoil (boy meets girl, boy likes girl, girl eventually decides she likes boy, boy suddenly remembers he has a girlfriend and tells girl they can only be friends) over a few pints after finishing at work for Christmas, she made two very obvious points about my current predicament:
1) Me and my girlfriend are not on the Break solely because of me; if we were, we’d be breaking up rather than on the Break
2) Automatically assuming everything is my fault, both regarding my girlfriend and my life in general, is a quick way of getting to the bottom of nothing
Both of these points had, like bewildered wildebeest, often crossed the sometimes barren plains of my mind in the past, but it feels like it’s taken someone else pointing them out to get them to settle there.
And if that analogy shows anything at all, it’s probably that I need some sleep…
