Friday, December 25, 2009

Where is Mr.Right during the holiday season?

The holiday season is suppose to be a time when friends and family come together and blah, blah, blah, blah... we're suppose to unite with family and friends and be thankful for everything we have and be thankful for the people in our lives, that includes relationships. We're suppose to be happy when we are in a living relationship with someone we could see ourselves spending the rest of our lives with, but what happens when the person we thought and wanted to spend the rest of our lives with turns out to be the one we wonder whether or not he is the one? Of course I am not speaking about myself I am actually in fact talking about a friend of mine whose name I will not reveal so for now we'll call her Meg. Meg is with a man (whose name will be Steven) who is obsessed with work, he works three jobs two of which take place in his home. Meanwhile his girlfriend Meg, mother of two, has to practically beg to see him and then if they are together or if she is at his place he too busy getting high or working. And now to make matters worse he has accepted a job in San Fransisco and she just realized he is not the one she is meant to be with, after he told her in the beginning that he was not interested in getting married. Unfortunately Meg is not the brightest in the bunch; I'm sorry to say she is one of those girls who cannot be without a man, she is still with Steven even though she tends to see other men on the side in hopes that one of them will be the next Mr. Right and actually not only is she looking for Mr. Right she's looking for the next husband and father because God forbid she does not become the stereotypical single, you know the one that is not on the hunt for a companion but on the hunt for someone to take care of her, because God forbid she try to make it on her own. So before I go into my tangent about "Mr.Right" I have a personal question for all of you...why would Steven pick up the phone and call me her best friend and tell me that when he gets back from Milwaukee, he and I should get together. Now before you give me you answer keep in mind I said "sure if Meg is up to hanging out we will." To which he responded "Well we can hang out without Meg." Then afterwards because I couldn't think of what to say I changed the subject and congratulated him on his new job. Now the question is do I tell her that her boyfriend has asked me to hang out on more than one occasion or do I keep it to myself because I'm a girl and I know how girls tend to think, especially a girl like Meg, what do I do? It sucks that we spend all this time and let's face it we also tend to spend a ton of money on clothes, make up, hair products, spa treatments, botox, liposuction, so we can try to make ourselves look amazing so we can find "Mr. Right" and in the end we end up with jerks thinking we found them but in the end they turn out to be a mistake, but because we have the tendency to want to fix everything we believe we can fix the mistakes in the men and then they'll be the perfect man. Well here's one of my questions for today if he was not perfect in the beginning why would he be perfect later on? They say we have to go through many mistakes before we find the right one, well how many do we have to go through and why do we do this to ourselves? Then again it always seems as though every single woman in the world including yours truly tends to wonder "where in the hell is "Mr. Right"? And what does he look like? And if in fact he is "Mr. Right" is he already perfect or do we have to fix him up? And do we really want a "Mr. Right" or are we just looking to say three little words..."Meet my boyfriend" Especially during the holiday season, we want to be able to say "my boyfriend and I can't make it", or "my boyfriend got me..."Do we really want a man just so we can have bragging rights especially during the holiday season? Or do we really long for that one person who will hold us when we're down for as long as it takes for us to calm down, who will be the one who will lend you his shoulder to cry on through the good and bad times. A man who can sit there and look at you with such benevolence and be able to sincerely mean it when he says "you are amazing" and when he hugs and holds you SO tight that in the end you can't breath because he's holding you so tight, but it doesn't matter because all you think is " I have never felt more content to be held, please don't let me go." So now my next questions are...where is "Mr.Right"? Do we really want someone to spend the rest of our lives with? Do we just want the ability to say four words..."I have a boyfriend."? Or do we want that one person who will hold us as tight as he can so that we can feel content?