Maybe I was wrong? No. Never that.

I once said that Going Round and Round in romance is fun. I heard a story from a guy on the street this morning that might suggest otherwise. It follows as such...

So this guy apparently knew a girl for a long time and all the while they were just friends while secretly he had a crush on her, or "kinda had a crush", he said. I don't know how one defines crush, but it was apparent to me that he would have been happy to be more than friends. Well eventually they don't see each other for a long time and they start to lose touch. Save for Facebook and the fact that they both kept the same numbers, they would not still have been able to keep in touch had they the desire. It seems as though they did not. Then, while hanging out with a large group of friends, who are mutual between the two of them, he runs into her. These two meet again and for him he says "it was an extremely pleasant, surprise". They immediately hit it off again as if they had never stopped speaking in the first place. This guy's friend, called something like German, was with this guy at the time and so in or der to be friendly he introduces his friend and his lady friend. The problem for him is that her and German immediately hit it off. It almost seems like they are two lovers that had known each other for much more than the 5 minutes that they actually had been acquainted in reality. This guy, who eventually tells me that his name is Simeon, always thought that she was beautiful and that he liked her in a juvenile manner, but today he felt something else, something much deeper. Seeing her and German together as if they were desperate lovers, his insides burned with a passion, as if he had loved her and as if she belonged to him. Simeon said "i tried to be friendly, so I just joked around with them and pretended like I did not care." The look on his face as he told me the story indicated to me that he really did care. Apparently she saw this look that night as well as she took a break from flirting with German and came to speak with him. Simeon broke German's attention by telling him to call one of their friends to find out where they were. While German was calling, they fell into a loving embrace and softly reminded each other of how much "I missed you", creating immense excitement for Simeon; he felt as though the whole world was working for his happiness. They walked holding hands and speaking in romantic frivolity. German soon regained his attention to the situation and took her back away from Simeon via playful wrestling. This was the final straw, Simeon officially stopped caring. As the night wore on and the people gathered in happiness and joy, Simeon still felt horribly alone in that his love was hanging at the edge of a cliff, hanging high and dry. The night came to a close and German and her shared a final kiss, on the first night of their friendship. Simeon walked away, pissed and slightly hurt. But he realized that just as they had only met on this night... he had only loved her so immensely on this night too. Was his heart broken or was his pride alone insulted? His friendship would German suffered no loss as Simeon says he recognizes that "he would do the same thing too." He also hadn't told German how he felt; in fact, he had told no one, until that is on the phone with her. She seemed surprise and slightly nonchalant. She told him that he is "wonderful" and that she "loved seeing" him that night. Still, she was far from him at that time and in the time that he held her in his arms he was happy, but such time was few and far in between his passionate disappointment and jealousy. Simeon had gone round and round with this girl that night and as he lay hids head upon his pillow that night, hurt, cold and alone... he had not had much fun. So then, is the hedonistic quality of going round and round with someone in romance fun? Still, I say yes! For German it was immensely gratifying. For Simeon it hurt. The difference between the two of them that night, though they are both friends, German was the winner and Simeon was the loser. So it is not the Hedonistic romance that can hurt, its losing that hurts. In going round and round, though, the winning as in German's case, makes for loads of fun and satisfaction.