What You Like and What You Do Not Like Maybe One and the Same Thing

I have mixed feelings about my cellphone.
My relationship with my phone is ambivalent.
I like it and I don’t like it.
There are days when I think it’s the greatest invention since peanut butter. And there are days when I want to fling it into the mouth of a volcano.

Here’s what I noticed: The very features that I like are the very same features that I don’t like. Absurd but true.

Why do I like my phone? I like the fact that I can call up the 954 people in my phone directory anytime. Useful when I am trap inside the elevator, when I need an ear to listen or simply just appearing to be a mysterious jerk to your crush coz you do not have the guts to show up.

Why do I not like my phone? I don’t like the fact that these 954 people can call me up at anytime—even when I’m lying on a hammock in a tiny island far out in the Pacific Ocean.

Why do I like my phone? Because I can bring it everywhere I go.
Why do I not like my phone? Because I can bring it everywhere I go!

Question: Have you ever had the absurd experience of leaving your cellphone at home and having to make a U-turn to come back for it? Nuts, right? Cellphones are now like one of our kidneys. You can still survive if it gets lost, but it’ll be risky.
I repeat: The very things that I like are the very same things that I don’t like.
Funny, but this is also true with our relationship.

Its funny how the very thing that made you crazy for a person will be the very same thing that will drive you crazy in the years to come.

If you fell in love with your partner because she was bubbly and the life of the party, today, you want to zip her mouth so that there would be world peace.

If you fell in love with your partner because he was quiet, strong, and steady as a rock, today, you want to curse him for being so cold and unresponsive—like you’re talking to a rock.

If you fell in love with your partner because of her stunning beauty, today, you find yourself pulling your hair in the car, waiting for her because she takes 3 hours just to dress up and put on her make-up.

Remember: Every strength has a weakness.

A weakness is really a strength applied inappropriately. And the way I see it, We are all right in the wrong way!

You can’t have only one side of the coin. You have to have both.