Couples

Do y'all watch this series?


I love it. If you've ever cohabited, I think you'll find "The Couple" webseries just as funny as I do, in that observational humor kind of way. This is the trailer for Season 2, but I'm sure you've seen this. That just leads me to my larger point:

A friend today brought up the issue of why couples won't do certain things for each other. Sexually.

I think these are the two sides of this coin:

1. If you aren't in a relationship with someone, you don't care what they think. This allows you to be less inhibited. i.e., this is why people hook up on vacations and whatnot. If it's a purely selfish and short-lived act, you don't mind going for it; doing whatever, doing those "you only live once" sorts of things.

2. HOWEVER, if you do care about your mate, perhaps there's some complacency, but maybe there are things you won't do because of insecurity. They know your hangups, they've seen you at your worst ... maybe there's something less sexy about that? Familiarity breeds contempt?

Now, many couples have amazing wild monkey sex, so I'm told. BUT I do think there are many people (men) who could say they've gotten strangers to do things their partners would never do.

YES? NO?

World's Most Shallow Roommate

My roommate, who is pregnant, comes back from the hair salon yesterday with weave to her ankles and fuzzy fake caterpillar eyelashes.

(AN ASIDE: Typically pregnant women are told to avoid chemical-heavy environments such as salons. Roommate, who is selectively half-Asian, dismisses this as "black people shyt.")

"Your hair is pretty!" I say.

"Uh huh," she says.

Not, "Thank you." Nope. Why fake basic humility?

She says, "People know me at the airport so I had to look like how they're used to seeing me."

...Didn't know I was living with an airport celebrity. Gotta stunt on the TSA peons, huh?

Today I Learned

James 1: 27 (NIV)

²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Today I learned that religion is action. It is:

1. Helping those who can't help themselves, taking care of people -- such as widows and orphans -- who are in need of love and care.

AND

2. Keeping yourself pure. This perhaps, is my new year's resolution, if you will. Increasingly, I feel the world is too noisy. I love media and entertainment, industries where this is especially true. But it takes wisdom and focus to appreciate or consider these things without allowing them to "pollute" you. And actually, it seems these two directives dovetail. I imagine that with unpolluted vision, it would be easier for me to recognize those I can "look after."

I don't think God will ask me if I had a drink last Saturday or if I went to church every Sunday. But I'm certain He will judge if I've done these two simple things to the best of my ability.

Today I learned, I've got work to do.