Crush
A Crush is a mysterious animal, a combination of anticipation, fear, uncertainty, nervousness and being drunk.
The alcohol link works like this: For me, the peak alcohol buzz is at 1.2 martinis. That's the drinking waypoint which gives me feeling akin to having a Crush, or being in Crush, as it might be. That feeling is kind of shivery inside, a cool happiness full of wanting what might be.
Maybe that's why we drink, because that emotion emulates the Crush, at least for some of us.
Trying to dissect a Crush is difficult because they are such slippery creatures. One day you have no Crush, the next you have a terribly yawning desire for the Crushee. Crushes follow us through life, like those parasitic fish who follow sharks around the ocean. Oh. Maybe that's not the best analogy.
What I mean about Crushes is that they're entirely illogical and utterly unpredictable. My past Crushes have been on girls I have known for a while, not women new to me. For some reason the reservoir of emotion overflows the dam holding it in, and BOOM - I'm Crushed. Hopeless. Helpless. Unable to put her out of my mind.
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I usually have crushes on people that I admire for some reason. Maybe as you get to know them, you like them more?
But your alcohol tolerance is apparently lower than mine. I need at least 2 to be in that floaty but not quite stumbling around feeling ;)
From the age of 23-28 I didn't have a single crush..I thought they were something reserved for young folk. Then last year I rediscovered them with my hairdresser and the girl from the pet shop - those Loveheart moments. Joy.
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At lest those are normal crushes. I have this mad crush on wrestler Chris Sabin. Pointless and intense.
Is there a cure for the "crush" ?
Two cocktails, 30ty, or are we talking wine or beer or liquor here?
Remind me to be careful out drinking with you - thighs and all that ;-)
Crushes based on admiration are crushes of the unobtainable aren't they? Even less likely to be requited than mine.
I thought you had a crush on your hair girl, PMFOOW -> which is good. Crushes keep us aware of the power of feelings, IMO.
Ah, the celebrity crush Miss Blood. Completely unrequitable, as you say, but unavoidable nonetheless if you are so inclined.
Good question. Maybe meeting the Crushee? Real life might deflate a crush, especially the famous person kind.
Mine's 3 pints of good ol' Fosters before I start thinking that I am Brad Pitt!
thighs? I'd say 2 cocktails, 2 pints, or 2 decent glasses of wine. I might have vastly improved my tolerance level while living in England ;)
I think the cure for a crush is to actually ask them out! Or discover something you don't like about them.
I have a crush on a fellow Blogger. My friends keep encouraging me to try to meet him. But I think some things are better left "fantasy". What do you think?
I find crushes very dangerous because, you are right, there is little that can be done to cure from it. Although, unlike you, mine are instant and could happen for almost any reason. A nice voice, for instance. Luckily they don't last long :-)
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Now all you need is to find your Angelina, Mr Rax. I think she turns up after five of Mr Fosters' finest. Then again, after five pints, pretty much every woman looks like Angelina.
Yep, that's my recipe for happiness too, 30ty. Break the spell by dating. That soon sorts out the frogs from the Princesses. (Poorly mixed metaphor there: apologies.)
Snafu, you inspired me to one of my pompous know-it-all posts. Perhaps you can prick my balloon and tell me I'm wrong.
Limited shelf-life crushes eh BbG? Is there no residual crush whatsoever ready to be reactivated when you hear/smell/see that person again?
I see there's an entire universe of Crushes out there.
Wombat you are totally onto something. There is very much a thing of the residue crush. I have fallen in and out of "lust" with a guy more then once. And if I could meet mine I would in a heart beat.
Ah-hah! I knew I couldn't be the only one. Something about the way Crushes work drives me to believe they emanate from somewhere deep inside. DNA-level deep. So there's no way to neatly dispatch them elsewhere to stop bugging us.
But that's just my species of crush, and by the sounds if it, yours too, Miss Blood.
So true so very true. Just last week in the course of one day, I decided I did not like my crush's nose and fell out of "lust" with him, and by supper time I was right back in lust because his eyes are just so inviting.
I'm doomed. Don't know how bad your crush is.
Noses are enigmatic like that, so it's quite fine to ditch a crush on that basis. And equally fine to be re-crushed.
Yep. Doomed. Both of us.
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