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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
All around the world
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I am packing my diva bags! It’s time for me to experience new adventures - something totally different. Different culture, music, food, language, different continent! I am South Africa bound and I am so excited I can hardly stand it! I leave in t minus 24 hours and counting. Of course, I had to load up my trusty ipod for the long, long, long, journey. I chose Lisa Stansfield’s classic song, All Around the World, to be my background music as I packed my things.
Been around the world and I can’t find my baby!
Now I’m not so hard up that I would go chasing guys all around the world, but I sure can remember a time when I was hot on the trail to replace one! Not just any replacement either. I call it my “Chasing Amy Phase”. No, I wasn’t chasing a girl named Amy, I am referring one of my favorite movies, Chasing Amy.
In one scene, Ben Affleck’s character tells his love interest: “You’re the epitome of everything I look for in a human being.” Can you imagine meeting that kind of person? Would you let them know they were your prototype?
Well after I met and lost my prototype, I was chasing a dream - a NEW prototype of my ex-boyfriend. Never mind the fact that my ex didn’t want to be anywhere near me. Now that he was out of my life, I wanted someone just like him.
You want to know what’s worse than pining away for your ex? Wishing you can find someone just like him. Comparing every poor guy you date to him. LOSE-LOSE.
Have you ever been in a situation where you constantly compare your dates to someone you are still hung up on? How did you handle it?
How do you cope with those lingering regrets you may have about the way you treated someone you dated? Do you make amends? Send them muffins? Offer to pay for the smashed dvds?
Are any of you going through a Chasing Amy Phase, so to speak?
If you met the “epitome of everything you look for in a human being” are you really prepared for what that actually means? Be honest!
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