Aug. 02, 2004

It is said many times in the past that guys and girls can not be friends. Sure we see all the people out there with these opposite sex platonic friendships that are strong and never amount to anything. I can be the biggest hypocrite of all to say this because many of my best friends are women and I can say that there will be no awkwardness that will follow… Maybe just a contradiction… but I tend to think exception… But I am the ultimate promoter that men and women can not be friends. It is too easy to look at someone else and say that there is nothing there but there always is. If Lucy fell.. the Sarah Jessica Parker movie where she vowed to jump off a bridge if her and her male best friend did not find their own romance by the end of the month…. Of course, they ended up getting together with each other. Blah, blah, blah, men and women can not be friends.
As men, we are confused…about our feelings, our emotions, about friendships and especially about love. There is no clear definition that makes sense. We just go. So we meet a girl one day… on the friendship tip. Or to pick them up… however it might go, it amounts to just friendship one way or another… you guys become “Best Friends”. Closest of buds. Like family. Alike in so many ways and comfortable as such. This is great. That’s what friendship is… Now remember that she is of the opposite sex and that you have a dick. So you find her pretty. Even enough to say that she is attractive. Even enough to say that you are attracted to her. She is smart. Intelligent. Kind. Loving. Gentle. You get along with her great. Her family loves you.. you love hers. You guys can talk all night long. There is this special bond. There is this connection… Man, this is what friendship is all about.
But now think the confusion of the male mind. Give us a check list of what an ideal girl is. What is the formula. Compare this list to your best friend now. Men forget that what we have sought out as our best friend in fact is the ideal woman and she is right of front of us. How confusing? No wonder guys and girls can not be friends, because there exist this perfection that we seek and sometimes our emotions get confused and the love we experience from our friends can get mistaken for the love of relation. Who is this person I know. Why is she so special? It is love or love, love? Of course it happens to the strongest of girls too… but the male mind is much weaker.
The answer is 0%. Take the person on your checklist and give them a big fat zero chance and it’ll work. If a 0.0001% possibility exist to get with the other person… then it is doomed to fail or life of eternal heartache. Ask someone… if you two were on a plane and it crashed on some deserted island and you were the only two that survived… if you would still consider it… then you cant be friends. On a plane.. crashed and all alone… the real answer is “we would still just be very good friends”… that is the true answer of friendship… everything else is love or some twisted form that makes up something that resembles friendship…and it’s not. However the closeness exist… there is complications. That possibility that is held on to is what kills. Hmmm 0%... maybe friendship can exist.
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Lucy Fell…