Charlie Challenge

i think i finally understand my feelings when it comes to relationships.

it’s not the fact being labeled as a couple that makes my heart pumping, it’s everything that happens before. the small glances here and there. the shy smile. hands brushing against one another, holding someone’s hand when you’re still considered friends. the shameless flirting. all those tiny things building up slowly. that’s what gets the adrenaline running. we’re still “friends” yet everything we do says otherwise. it’s the ignorance of others that makes it exciting. it’s the excitement itself that just makes everything that happens more magical.

then, once labelled a “couple”, all the adrenaline just goes away. everything becomes ordinary. even if the ride taken together might be magical and exciting. i still won’t forget the little whispers that brought us there and the little leaps my heart took.

Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;
He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how
We are working to completion, working on from then to now.

Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,
Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,
And remember men will scorn it, ‘tis original and true,
And the obliquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.

But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,
You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,
What for us are all distractions of men’s fellowship and smiles;
What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.

You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,
But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant’s fate.
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams.

Read while listening to Time by Hans Zimmer from the movie Inception.