We were like a bad metaphor
Let’s say we have a big hole on the street, a silicone gun, and a rock.
When we broke up, a hole, a big feeling of emptiness was left on me. I tried to fill that hole with everything I could, including people. Months later, I realized that a new relationship wasn’t at all what I wanted, and then again, you left a hole in me. At the time, a new guy started talking to me, and that’s when I understood it all; I was never interested in him; however, talking to him helped me to get distracted, his attention made me forget about you for a while… That’s when I realized that is what I have been doing the whole time, using people to fill a hole that I’m supposed to let heal instead of forcefully trying to fill it. That’s why I started a relationship two months after our break up, to fill an emptiness that I desperately wanted to get rid of.
Now, I am the street, that hole on the street I was talking about represents the hole that your love left on me. Trying to fill it with other people’s attention and affection is like trying to fix the hole on the street with silicone; it will work, but temporarily. Wait until a storm comes or when a few cars pass on top and see if it still works… Of course not, it will come off. And we all know that silicone is not even a good option to fill a hole on the street, it’s a stupid idea…
You coming back to my life would make me feel better instantly. It’s much quicker than going through the process of getting over you, and less painful… But it’s just as if I try to cover that hole on the street with a big rock that, in fact, perfectly fits in. It would instantly work, it would somehow fix the hole! However, putting a rock in it isn’t the best way to fix it, and I perfectly know that. I can either move the rock from the hole (even though it’s heavy and the effort would be so fucking much) and just let it heal, eventually fill it with pavement, let the street slowly go back to itself even if it would take a shit ton of time… Or I can leave the rock in there, let it slowly become a part of the street perfecly knowing that it will damage it and ruin it.
Sometimes I wonder what other people in my shoes would do. Move the fucking rock and slowly fill the hole on the street with pavement, leave the rock in there even if it’s not a good thing to do, or keep filling it with pieces of silicone even if it’s stupid?