Love

The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough,
Is having the blind persistence
To upset an existence
Just for your own sake.
What cheek it must take.

And then the unselfish side-
How can you be satisfied
Putting someone else first
So that you come off worst?
My life is for me.
As well ignore gravity.

Still virtuous or vicious,
love suits most of us.
Only the bleeder found
selfish this wrong way out
Is ever wholly rebuffed,
And he can get stuffed.

Philip Larkin, "Love"

Selfishenough started with this poem and now I bring it back to the surface. Yeah, so much time reading Mr Larkin and I was becoming so weak. Shame on me!


Now I'm cool, calm and collected, but let me tell you that

*I'll never put someone else first so that I come off worst again.
**From now on I'll try to make this blog less personal because it has caused a lot of problems. Perhaps I should stick to quotations and that sort of things, I don't know yet. In fact I'm considering the possibility of closing Selfishenough.

I love everybody, etc., etc.
Let's have fun XD