So really, what's all the fussing for? No emotional baggage, just big bags filled with Dior.
"Labels or Love" lyric-twisting aside, as someone who sees the world in fashion, I have come to the conclusion that not only love, but life, is a runway. You pick out that perfect outfit, strut down the catwalk, and right back into the dressing room. That's not that different from getting dressed in the morning, going to work, and coming back home. Maybe I'm more H&M than Balmain, and more Guess than Jimmy Choo, but the concept is the same. Thanks to years of religiously reading Vogue from cover to cover, a true fashionista does not have to rely on labels to pull off a perfect styling.
It is inevitable that in what we call the runway of life, there are moments of what-if's. Don't get me wrong, I am happy with where I am not and have no regrets. But it is also a fact that we all do have that what-if moment, especially in relationships.
Relationship is all rainbows and puppies until hurricane *insert name* hits. At that point, you really do what everyone does when faced with the onset of a hurricane: run. Bonus points if you can run really fast in the correct direction. I'll give you a hint: not towards the hurricane. In the midst of the running, we all can't help but wonder: what-if? What if I was more this or more that? What if this happened or that happened? 99% of the times, those what-if scenarios somehow comes true and leads to the happy ending. The tricky part is that you need to be the character in the Garry Marshall Land.
Then what does that leave us? Are we all forever possessed with the ghost of the relationship past? I'd like to think otherwise. For one, whatever happened, happened. Unless you can invent a flux capacitor (and you probably won't if you tried because by definition, flux is not a capacitor), you can't change what has happened. When something ends, we all tend to get fixated on all of the things that didn't go right, and tend to neglect things that did go right. Truth is, things did go right; it just didn't last. So instead of forever moping and being all angry, it's best to keep the best memory in your heart and move on.
When the ghost of the relationship past made you fall flat on the runway of life, moving on is probably the hardest thing to do. After all, we all just want to sulk away in the corner, binge on ice cream and chick flicks, and feel sorry for ourselves. But that is not a happy place. Like Carrie Bradshaw once said, "When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking." It is comforting to know that your friends are there to lend you a helping hand or two. That's what friends are for.
Then if you're like me and adores Sarah Burton, looking at something beautiful, like Alexander McQueen's Pre-Autumn/Winter 2012 Collection will always make you happy. Actual post on that will be up later...at some point...just be patient with me? Please?
xoxo
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