Man has this tendency to associate with fellow man. In the chronoligical process as one’s growing up (I’ll speak for a boy). It’s all about being macho. Fight, grovel will the royal rumble, be Capt’n Fantastico. Above all have infinitesimal relations with girls, clearly puberty is still at bay.
Tic toc…tic toc the boy starts to notice girls, but all along all he know’s is to be a ‘macho man’. No feelings but to get the ladies you need to show a flicker or a plethora of feelings. So you start winking at these girls. Winking succeeds an array of teasing and is followed by a series of empty talk or strange bravado.
This morphs into so strange of feeling upon sensing a profound attachment to the girl. This girl will make you go through hoops; teaches you exactly why patience is deemed a virtue. Soon the profound attachment begets much liking which escalates to love. It’s all fair in love and war, it’s a blessing if the love is returned and ubber chaos if it isn’t. As they say; there’s a thin line between love and hate.
I’m an optimist so the boy gets the girl. Depending on the television experience coupled with a tinge of courage, sex might be in the works. I’ve searched in the Matrix for the origin of the word boo, but this has eluded me. My two cents will come to play here. Boo and booing. A verb turned into a noun. The girl (in my case) who got me from Capt’n Fantastico to well…..me is my boo. Case and point well she walked me through my ABCs then broke my heart(….a bit hazy recollection). The earth beneath me was non-existent. I learnt never to open my heart again. But that late adolescence.
Meet Coyote the man.Through all these hurdles and now burdened with one questio: Who is the one?
What makes the first girl..the zero? The girl who get to go to the altar..the infinite?
Too many question no answers. Zero proof; just a feeling.
I guess we all need someone to witness our lifes journeys and triumphs. This is the person we don’t aspire to boo. This person loves you for you, and your ideologies however oxymoronic they may be will get some breathing space, then some fiery bottoms.
As Li Chang says ‘Ai de shang hai dan ye shi ru ci tong ku’
Love hurts, so does pain.
