i know this is hard to explain and even harder to understand if you've never been there... but sometimes you really do feel a relationship isn't right from the beginning. but you don't really know that at the beginning. like, you buy a shirt: it fits wrong, but you love it, you feel you can grow into it, you tell yourself you'll get it tailored. maybe it's not the most flattering color, but who cares, there's no rule about what colors you can wear. besides, you searched for that shirt for ages, you spent a lot of time and money on it. and you had a really great time in that shirt once, even though it didn't fit right. and once you give it away, you look back and think, "god, that shirt looked awful on me."
I am begging the world to understand that friendship is a legitimate form of love that is not diminished by the lack of a romantic relationship and it deserves to be celebrated for what it is.
nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.
me: oh cool
nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.
me: oh cool
nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.