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CibbuanoHow do you mend a broken heart?
November 7th 2006 00:27
Some believe that when you fall of the horse, the best thing to do is to jump right back on. Others prefer to mope about and lick their wounds for a few months. Personally, I find distraction is the key getting over a break up. What is it that you do to get over the grieving rut that follows the end of a relationship?
As I said, distraction works best for me. Whether it be catching up with a few missed drinks and nights of revelry with mates, starting a new and grueling fitness regime or taking to a new hobby like… I donno… homemaking. I figure if I can keep the mind busy there’s little time to reflect on what was.
I tend to have a peculiar way of dealing with break-ups. At first I’ll feel this urge for refreshment and renewal. I’ll start drinking orange juice, eating tubs of natural yoghurt, waking up at godforsaken times in the morning to make a daily pilgrimage to some yoga class where I’ll contort my limbs to angles they where never designed to reach. I call this my cleansing period and it is generally the time when all my friends will recognize I’m in a period of personal crisis.
Whilst I’ll project this wholesome image of a balanced born again hippy internally I’m shedding all associations and ties to the void relationship. It’s weird behaviour, even I’ll have to admit that I can appear like some crazed lunatic at the best of times. Yes to soy lattes and granola with organic fruit. Still, it is probably a time when I’ll contribute the most to society, so it can’t be all bad.
It’s not that I don’t like rainforests, starving children or caged chimpanzees who are working below their minimum wage. I just don’t like getting asked to resolve the world’s core problems when I’m rushing to get to my sandwich bar before the lunchtime lines stack around the block and all my favourite condiments have been siphoned to mere dribbles in their condiment dishes. It is only during my hippy, relationship cleansing and renewal treatment program that I actually put aside my selfish grumbling stomach and greet the clipboard Nazi’s with a smile and a donation.
So what do you do to get over a broken heart? I’ve heard alcohol and wild one night stands are like an aloe vera infused Kleenex to the weeping heart. Does anyone else have the urge to release a new and improved self onto the meat market? What have you tried, what works, what doesn’t?
As I said, distraction works best for me. Whether it be catching up with a few missed drinks and nights of revelry with mates, starting a new and grueling fitness regime or taking to a new hobby like… I donno… homemaking. I figure if I can keep the mind busy there’s little time to reflect on what was.
I tend to have a peculiar way of dealing with break-ups. At first I’ll feel this urge for refreshment and renewal. I’ll start drinking orange juice, eating tubs of natural yoghurt, waking up at godforsaken times in the morning to make a daily pilgrimage to some yoga class where I’ll contort my limbs to angles they where never designed to reach. I call this my cleansing period and it is generally the time when all my friends will recognize I’m in a period of personal crisis.
Whilst I’ll project this wholesome image of a balanced born again hippy internally I’m shedding all associations and ties to the void relationship. It’s weird behaviour, even I’ll have to admit that I can appear like some crazed lunatic at the best of times. Yes to soy lattes and granola with organic fruit. Still, it is probably a time when I’ll contribute the most to society, so it can’t be all bad.
It’s not that I don’t like rainforests, starving children or caged chimpanzees who are working below their minimum wage. I just don’t like getting asked to resolve the world’s core problems when I’m rushing to get to my sandwich bar before the lunchtime lines stack around the block and all my favourite condiments have been siphoned to mere dribbles in their condiment dishes. It is only during my hippy, relationship cleansing and renewal treatment program that I actually put aside my selfish grumbling stomach and greet the clipboard Nazi’s with a smile and a donation.
So what do you do to get over a broken heart? I’ve heard alcohol and wild one night stands are like an aloe vera infused Kleenex to the weeping heart. Does anyone else have the urge to release a new and improved self onto the meat market? What have you tried, what works, what doesn’t?
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