"Wait... They don't love you like I love you"

The key word that I used when designing this layout is "Maps". It was short and easy and the Lodge concept came only after a few intial designs.

With the word "Maps" in my mind I couldn't help but get the song "Maps" stuck in my head - the one by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's.

And this song gets to me every time I hear it because there have been a couple of times where I suddenly had the realization that my love wasn't reciprocated. Ugh. Is that the worst possible feeling ever? At this point in my life I think so. I rank it right up there with betrayal andthe feeling I would get if suddenly aliens from another planet stole every chocolate chip cookie and the ability to make more chocolate chip cookies.

The worst part about love not being reciprocated is that I know what it is like to be the person not reciprocating as well. You feel bad about not loving that person back, but you are not a genie and you cannot conjure up feelings that just aren't there(wait, are you a genie? If so, can I have my 3 wishes, please leave a comment and I will come find your lamp). And since you have been on both sides you know how they are feeling - hurt, confused, disappointed, bitter.

Even more upsetting is when that person that you love that doesn't love you back loves someone else. At least if the love isn't reciprocal then "can't you at least have the decency to not love someone else while I am in the middle of loving you? And if you can't, then can you please move far, far, far away so that I don't have to see you being in love?"

It makes me want to scream out - "Wait... they don't love you like I love you" really dramatically like the way you see it in movies. Unfortunately, life isn't like the movies.

So remember people when you are over at dooce, kpinion, justsayjes, mim, em, genuine, - they don't love you like I love you.