If I Fail

These are the some of the words to a beautiful song by Cartel. I love their music, especially this song, aptly entitled "If I Fail."

If you feel the same way,
Then how can we be friends?
He's right you know, we can't go on like this.
And oh I'd try to give you everything
And if I fail, well then I fail, but at least I gave you something

I could put my trust in.
Giving up the heart - it makes the difference,
And how can you afford to settle down?
When I, I would promise to love you now,
but I would lovingly let you down...

I'll be honest with you here for a minute. I believe that this is my outlook on life, and relationships in general. I'm not saying that I believe that I'm going to let everyone I've ever met down, but I don't feel like it's a bad thing to try something, even if you don't succeed. We may have tried to be friends and it didn't really work out...that's ok. If we tried to date and that didn't work out, that's ok too. I'm not stressing it.

Hear me out. I'm not talking about half-assing it and being all "oh, guess it just wasn't meant to be," but if you seriously put your best into something and it doesn't work out, then how can you hold it against yourself? You probably learned some valuable lessons, and you had some good times. Maybe it's a little cold or callous to say that when you're talking about someone who once meant a lot to you, but it's the truth. At least for me.

The other part, the part about lovingly letting you down, that part's true for me too, at least as far as dating relationships go. I'm not much for commitment. Commitment is too much like parole for me. There is no reason for me to check in and let you know what I'm doing and where I'm going on a regular basis. I didn't do anything wrong, so you should trust me to be out without you or you knowing my schedule 24/7. Sorry, that's just not me.

But that's a whole 'nother story. So for now, I leave you with this: good times are never wasted times.









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