#56: The necklace
Waste not, want not.
Some time later I had been doing a little spring cleaning in my room and throwing all those female advice books for men in the one place they needed to go…the garbage. I then moved on to the closet and started moving boxes out of the way and reaching into the top portions of the closet when I felt a very small box around my hand.
I took it down and was staring at a bad memory. Caked with a layer of dust over the lid was the box containing the necklace that I had given to my High School crush over seven years ago, which after being returned I promised I would put around the neck of the “one true girl” out there for me. There it had sat all this time since High School.
I felt a surge of anger go through me. There was not any “one true love” out there for me…THAT was a bullshit fantasy. “The Land of Make Believe.” Hell, how many people entering marriages believed they found “the one” when years later they were standing in the middle of a divorce court? The truth was that there were thousands of women I had been ignoring because I believed that shit and was hung up on one person.
I came very close to throwing the box in the garbage can along with everything else, but then I stayed my hand. This was a near $100 necklace after all…would have been a shame to toss it. But I didn’t want to keep it. So what the hell to do with it?
…
“You won this where?”
“Uh yeah, I was fooling around at TILT in the mall and won that in a claw machine,” I fibbed. “Thought that’d look better on you than me.”
Mom looked at the necklace and back at me very inquisitively. “You won THIS from an arcade?” She then shrugged and thanked me as she took it out of the box and started admiring it. “It’s so pretty…”
What are sons for?
Honey Says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
I don’t believe that there’s only ONE person out there for you, but I don’t think that they’re around every corner, either. And it always takes work. IMO, the biggest reason that people’s relationships fail is because they’re reluctant to approach relationships intellectually. You have feelings, but that’s not what will make a relationship succeed or fail. You have to THINK about what you’re doing.
The Dateable Dork Says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Hahahaha - great story.
And I totally agree with Honey - very well said. I think it’s great that you were able to let go of that fantasy and take on a more realistic (and healthier) mindset. If only all bad memories could be so easily tossed aside!
Kevin Chan Says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Well, you can also sell such items online these days. There are websites that help sell ex-boyfriend/girlfriend jewellery. (: Guess that’s an alternative, but I guess you made yr mom happy!