Jasmine: I wrote this a while back

This is something that I wrote some time ago while at work. I was watching the shrimp at the time. You see Petsmart sells these feeder shrimp tiny little translucent suicidal things. We keep them outside the main fish system in a critter carrier filled with water because they can’t handle it or something. Anyways, trapped in this cage they fling themselves at the surface of the water sticking themselves to the tank above the water line. Then they die. If one happens to be bored, as I was, you can sit there and slosh them back into the water. Doubly bored I began to write in a tiny notebook I brought to work just because I knew I would get bored. Among other things this is what I created. I don’t know why I’ve waited so long to use it, but on a whim I edited it up this morning and tacked on some quotes. I like it, it entertains me, have fun.

You feel the confusion writhing inside you. It’s feels like a disease you picked up in some foreign country, like Togo, or Bolivia. That’s exactly what this is, a Bolivian river parasite. It crawls inside you, or maybe you ate it along with a papaya or something. Either way it is now inside you. It heads for your brain, control center of all motor function, origin of all emotion, base for who you are. Once there it quickly assumes command of you. Quite suddenly you will develop an urge to be near some random person for no tangible reason whatsoever.

It disrupts brain-to-mouth filter function causing you to say out of character things at exactly the wrong moments giving the impression that you’re infatuated with this stranger. But you’re not. It’s just the Togo monkey worm forcing you to do this. You see yourself in these situations and you wonder what has possessed your body, your mind, but the curiosity is fleeting, the Siamese fighting virus wipes the dissension away.

It makes you doubt everything. What you wear, they way you smell. It causes you to go over completely insignificant events and then it misinterprets them just to stress you out. It continually flips you around, playing with you till you feel like you’re at the end of all patience.

And once you’ve go ne through this whole song and dance and it has you utterly convinced that you do indeed care and feel for this stranger, the Mongolian bird mite compelled you to take a liking to, it leaves you and you’re stuck with someone who may or may not have been infected themselves. And you have no idea how you both got into this marriage, but you don’t exactly mind caring because that Yugoslavian nematode has left behind all these warm and fuzzy feelings and you don’t even want to get rid of them. Instead you live out the rest of your lives in manufactured bliss.

So beware people. Love real? Ha! It’s just a Bulgarian liver beetle telling your brain that it needs someone to live beside for the rest of its life.

And for the quotes, I know that there are a lot of them, but this type of subject does inspire the masses, so I thought I would represent my quotes proportionally to how many were made of each topic. Not really, I got a little over excited, and these are just amusing:

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
-Anonymous

"...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody."
-Alain de Botton

"Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!"
-Abu Hamid Al-Ghazzali

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
-Paulo Coelho

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
– Vicotor Hugo

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
-John Fletcher

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
-John Barrymore

"Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker"
-Anonymous

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
-The Matrix - Revolutions, character Merovingian

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.
-Katharine Hepburn

I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult.
-Sir David Paradine Frost

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
-La Rochefoucauld

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
-Elijah Wood