Playing Games [with affairs of the heart].

Whether someone is doing it consciously, or subconsciously, I hate it. 

Y'all know what I'm talking about here, I bet we've all played games like:

'The Waiting Game', 'The Three Day Rule' and 'The Pursuit of Jealousy©' [*strongly recommended for two-players only*.]

I don't know whether it's just me over-thinking and analysing every little move, maybe they're not playing games at all and it's in my head. But I personally just prefer to be direct about my intentions, no messing around (I've actually been told that I have no subtlety). 

Although I can understand why we may resort to them, for whatever reasons: not wanting to look desperate and trying to appear cool(er) (definitely in my case). I guess the greatest risk is that someone could get hurt, hence all the motives. You may be secretly hoping that they fail the first round, to save your own feelings, but yet get disappointed if they do...

So, in the love game, when the stakes are high and your heart is on the line, will you fold, or go all in?

Love,

Timing

"Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late. If I'd live in another time or place... My story might have had a very different ending." -2046

Have you ever met any one, that under all the right circumstances, they'd be the one for you...? 

Or is timing just an excuse? 

To an extent, I think that if there was potentially something special you could share together, then you'd do everything you could about it and make it happen.

Alternatively, you could also meet someone wrong at the right time...

Does timing count?

Love,

An *Unlikely* Love Story...

"Where do I begin 
To tell the story of how great a love can be 
The sweet love story that is older than the sea 
The simple truth about the love she brings to me 
Where do I start."

Andy Williams - "Where Do I Begin (Love Story)."

Where indeed.
Where do you meet the person who could become the love of your life?
It would be a complete stranger I'd keep seeing again and again until one day, conversation sparkled... We'd get to know each other more and more... Until we'd fall in love. I always imagined that it would be as if fate were pushing you both together.
But where?

For me, the most romantic place to meet someone is:

On the Train

Meeting someone on the way to work and falling in love, surely breaks the dreary routine - because it's something you wouldn't expect.

Except that I always expected it! Or at least, willed it to happen...

It never did.

At the Library

Imagine this: I'd be intensely stuck into one of my romantic books and as my eyes lift from the book I'm reading, I catch the gaze of a fellow book reader nearby, who appears equally engrossed in his book. We'd smile briefly, return back to reading, occasionally glancing at each other... Until one of us musters the courage to speak to each other, saying something totally charming and adorable of course.

I used to go to the library in the City a lot during my first year at University. Now it's getting re-constructed so cue end of dream for me! My dreams then transferred to the University library... Unfortunately, I never did fall in love with anyone hanging around the Nursing section of the library!

In School/University

I'm not going to lie. This didn't happen - not even a LITTLE bit! I went to an all girl Catholic secondary school and sixth form, followed by a nursing degree at University. I bade goodbye to my dreams of meeting my boyfriend before class, to pass notes together during lectures., to have someone to carry my books to and fro...

Nothing!!

And I swear, I'm not bitter, but it leaves me wondering...
Where?!