my careless contagion

Men have probably rhapsodized — ecstatically — about women as long as they have had the language with which to do so. Women are truly special, created because God felt man should not be alone. They weren't formed from a blank, so to speak, but from the template of Adam. As such, they fill a void in man. I've known the lack of a woman most of my life. Furthermore, I've known the lack of a good woman my entire life. A good woman fills a man's void. A less-than-good woman breaks a man and makes him wish he had a void in his life. But let's not digress so soon. I have been given the rare gift of retrospective insight. Though it is too late in life to do me any good, it is nonetheless a gift. Not everyone gets a chance to see so clearly their life's many mistakes. Perhaps one of my biggest mistakes was choosing to spend my life with a woman who was no good for me. It is easy for me to say life would have gone better had I made a better decision, but, as t...

This is another one of the posts from this summer I neglected to post until now. Originally, it was two parts, but I failed to finish the second part, so I will delete that. It didn't say anything that hasn't been adequately said already. I know the girl I'm writing about would probably disagree with what I've said here, but we're both adults and I'm allowed to think what I want. She will always be my measuring stick for females. The proverbial dust has settled. I left a relationship and another relationship left me. When you can't have what you want — and that's all you really want — then it's useless to ask what you can have instead. But, let's say I could create my own dream girl. What kind of girl would I create? Well, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, of course. Except she could squash me like a bug. Okay, definitely not Wonder Woman then.  The best I can come up with is this: I am looking for a woman with a curio...