Thursday, February 12, 2009

Once a cheater always a cheater

Is that really so I wonder?
And if it is, why is it so?
Is one afflicted by the syndrome of the grass is greener in someone else's yard?
Or is it just the inability to know what one wants?
Maybe an addiction to the thrill of the chase that wears off once it's no longer there.
After all, it is in human nature to want what you can't have.

Could it be a form of Gluttony?
I want my cake and eat it too.
And if this is an affliction how did it come about?
Could it be a result of a bad experience?
A bitter end to an even more bitter marriage.
A bitchy girlfriend or consequence of an unbearable heartbreak that subconsciously won't allow one to get too attached to someone.
And as an affliction is there absolutely no cure for it?

The romantics would say that love conquers all.
The realists would say love has its work cut out for it.
What do the rest of us say?
I say that if "once a cheater, always a cheater" is a sentence without the possibility of parole or redemption, life is pretty grim