A thought to open this discussion:
Paul Varjak: "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
-Breakfast at Tiffany's
I've been thinking a lot about how bravery and cowardice play out in relationship. A person may be all kinds of wrong for me, but I will stick with him until I learn that he is an ignoble milksop. Then I'm gone and don't look back.
Paul Varjak: "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
-Breakfast at Tiffany's
I've been thinking a lot about how bravery and cowardice play out in relationship. A person may be all kinds of wrong for me, but I will stick with him until I learn that he is an ignoble milksop. Then I'm gone and don't look back.
I also know that any characteristic you despise in others is one you find in yourself. So yes, I can be fearful and whiny, but I try to overcome it, especially in a crisis. Booya.
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