Never mind, I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,
Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead,"
Yeah.
~Adele, Someone Like You
It was a cool spring night with a slight breeze that reminded me why I loved my home town. I had just spent a cute evening with a beautiful man at Borders Books.
After I drove him home and parked outside of his apartment, I wished we could continue up to his place...As the engine died, Adele's “Someone Like You” was on repeat. It was my latest obsession.
This song struck a cord with me that I had yet to experience....
This song struck a cord with me that I had yet to experience....
I told the beautiful man sitting in my passenger seat, “I love this song and I can play it over and over again...Adele, ever heard of her?”
“Yea, She’s good, I guess...”
WHO "GUESSES" that Adele is GOOD?! She is amazing. That was hint #1 of things to come....
I sarcastically said with a cute tone, “I wonder if this song is a sign, a hint of things to come, maybe you will be a disappointment? Hum?”
He looked at me from the passenger seat with what he calls his, “Moon-doggie-eyes” and continued to describe what he thought Love was....
I replied, “If I was looking for love your words would make me melt, but I told you what I was looking for...”
He flinched and shook his head as if he were hearing for the first time that the person eating the cookies left for Santa Clause was Grandpa!!
He told me I did not understand and that I was too inexperienced to know what love was...
I sincerely said, “You sound like something out of Cosmopolitan Magazine....Cosmopolitan is written for women with men in mind.... I hear your words, but my mind is made up...”
He replied triumphantly, “I actually read Cosmopolitan...My Girl...I mean my Ex-Girlfriend used to read it....”
The next few encounters with this beautiful man panned out much like a BAD Teen Movie, a Cosmopolitan Magazine “Do and Don’t” Column or me gracing the cover of Cosmo as the latest SURVIVOR winner...
Turns out his Ex-Girlfriend still reads Cosmopolitan Magazine and the April issue was sitting next to an orange purse (on what should have been HIS bed), but it was his Ex-Girlfriend's mother's bed. His
Ex-Girlfriend slept in the other bedroom and he supposedly slept on the couch.
Did he really not understand his Sloth like apathetic (7DeadlySins) tendency?
No, he didn’t understand or even care about imposing on his Ex’s apartment, barely having a job, no plans of working full time, NOT marrying his Ex after she invested over 10 years with him. He never considered what a SLAP in the face (to his Ex) stepping out on her [his Ex] with a girl that he criticized for having a UCLA degree, good family, book smarts, a smart phone and Apple computer (might be).
However, he DID understand what he wanted: Ice cream, love, proving "wrong" his cult religious upbringing, the desire to be a superhero and to join the United States Army.
In retrospect he was identical to a guy I had a crush on in College, but I avoided this crush due to the fact that his pick up line involved being “torn apart,” and many of his women either couldn’t speak
English and he acted smarter than them. He would play both cards: one being “down with the people” and the other being an "Esoteric Elite Ivory Tower Ass."
Oh, but that Beautiful Man sitting in my passenger seat. Maybe he could be different? Maybe there is still hope?
That Beautiful Man wants to be something great to someone...So why couldn’t that someone be me?
"Never mind, I'll find Someone Like You" or Someone Like, Completely Different You Idiot.
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This post was inspired by Adele’s latest interview with Cosmopolitan Magazine. She writes about heart break, lost love etc.
But what will happen if she ever finds Love? She mentioned wanting her next album to be “Happy & Fun.”My advice:
Use the feelings we already have, but find the cutting humor in past experiences. Happiness is found on the Coat-tail of Sorrow and although Lemons might be Sour, they cleanse the Soul...we add our own amount of sugar to life's Lemon-Aide....We choose how Sweet to make Tomorrow.
