Wednesday, June 22, 2011

"Mr. Brightside" by The Killers

So I let her go, my cute freckled little pet.  She had no quit in her, she held on for a long time after, but I let go.  Eventually, finally, she had no choice but to let go too and move on.  I was sure I was doing the right thing.  Since then, I have wondered, but I was so sure of it then.  I suppose it must have been the right thing to do if I was so sure of it in the moment.  At the very least, I'm proud that I had the moral uprightness to be able to adhere so firmly to a decision made based on principle. (Do I still have that same moral uprightness today? I don't know.)

When she started seeing someone else, he asked me if it was okay.  (He was a good friend.  It's too bad he won't talk to me anymore, but that's another story.)   I told him it was okay.  And it was.  It didn't bother me.  I was happy for the both of them.  But it only lasted a week.  Then she came back.

Later on, she got together with another guy, and that was fine with me too.  They asked for my approval and I gave it to them.  That relationship lasted a few months, I think.  She later told me it had been a mistake.

After a while, I decided, of course, that I wanted her back.  But by then it was too late. She really was gone.  I watched her jump from guy to guy, playing them all one off the other like pawns, learning to use her sexuality as a tool, or worse yet, as a weapon.  Was I her ultimate target?  Or just collateral damage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE

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