balloons

guru shay and i were talking a few weeks ago about dropping this whole law thing and writing a book about relationship advice (you know, because both of us have such amazing track records. who wouldn't want to ask two asian chicks who are slightly neurotic and quasi-melodramatic, disillusioned with their profession, with expensive shopping habits and ridiciulously high standards for relationship advice?). we came up with this fabulous idea when we realized that we are amazing at creating brilliant analogies when analyzing relationships. the working title is:

Learning relationships through understanding fashion, war, medicine, vegetarianism and balloons.*

The balloon analogy goes like this:

When you know that you are going to see someone you really really like, possibly even love, it's like you're walking around all day with this balloon tied to your hand full of hope and excitement. and when they don't show up, it's a if someone has taken a pin and pricked the base near the knot, so that it doesn't pop right away. Rather, you watch as the air lets out, minute by minute, as you go through the phases of less hope to uncertainty, to being annoyed to outright frustration to insecurity. until finally, the balloon has no air, there may be tears, and you fall asleep. But then you see that person again, or hear from them, and slowly but surely, the balloon fills up again.

The moral of the story? try to not get too attached to the air in the balloon, but cherish the fact that you have a balloon in the first place because it has the power to make you happy. when that stops, it's time to cut the string.

we're good, aren't we? this book is so gonna rock!


*see previous posts for the fashion, war and medicine analogies. the vegetarian analogy needs approval from guru shay before it's posted.