How We Torture Ourselves

The Best Conversation Between a Friend and Another Friend 

Her: Are you dating anyone?

Him: Well I "love" someone but she doesn't know it.

Him:  Love is in quotes because it's finite.  

The last line was nonsense.  Literally.  He told us later that he doesn't even know what that means and he texted it in a half-asleep and half-drunk state.  

But the story here is that, we girls got this message late in the evening.  Instead of laughing at the ridiculous rhetoric and just going to bed, we stayed up for an embarrassing long time, analyzing and explaining this cryptic note.  

"Well, finite means having limits, so I'm sure he means that it's in quotes because he doesn't see it going anywhere."

                            .....and then we argued over the definition of 'finite' for a few minutes.

"No, I'm sure he means that it's in quotes because he doesn't know what love means, or maybe it means something different to her than for him."

"Well wait, is this a line from a song or something?"

                                                    ..... Quick google break.

"Hang on.  He said it's in quotes to US, but maybe that's because he's embarrassed to tell us he loves someone.  You know, because he's a brooding musician."

We finally fell asleep murmuring about love and definitions and musicians and communication and THIS IS WHY GIRLS ARE RIDICULOUS.