Found on Tumblr some years ago and just rediscovered. It was written by a girl identified only as Taylor:
"A lot of people ask me what my biggest
fear is, or what scares me most. And I know
they expect an answer like heights, or
closed spaces, or people dressed like
animals, but how do I tell them that when I
was 17 I took a class called 'Relationships
For Life' and I learned that most people fall
out of love for the same reasons they fell in
it. That their lover's once endearing
stubbornness has now become refusal to
compromise and their one track mind is
now immaturity and their bad habits that
you once adored are now money down the
drain. Their spontaneity becomes recklessness
and irresponsibility and their feet up on your
dash is no longer sexy, but just another
annoying distraction in your life.
Nothing saddens and scares me like the
thought that I can become ugly to someone
who once thought all the stars were in my
eyes."
That thought scares me too, both that I might become that to him I love or that he might become that to me. I don't want that to happen. Dear Lord, I don't.
Doesn't it scare you, too? How many marriages have foundered on the rocks of tiresomeness?
