Breakups = Suck!!

Bringing a book each time I step out has been my consistent habit for years. Whether I'm off to do an interview or simply to stroll over the mall, I make it a point to carry a copy. You see, it pays to have a muted yet reliable vivid escape or sometimes fountain of information handy when boredom strikes you circumstantially. 


After globe-trotting through the pages of Steve Berry's Charlemagne Pursuit, the accomplishment of having to perfectly comprehend his mind-boggling plot just makes me want to let out a deep sigh of relief. Whew! How he weaves a very intricate series of connecting stories is just pure genius. 

To lay down a bit low on my intellectual-thrillers and to permit my brain cells to replenish after pages and pages of analogy, I've picked this book as my next read. 

It's Called Breakup Because It's Broken by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt

It's not a prequel nor a sequel to He's Just Not That Into You or something. It just so happened that it was co-authored by one of the guys who penned the prior book. 


Why It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken you ask?
Not that the boyfriend and I are breaking up anytime soon, that's very far from happening. In fact, I'm quite certain that we've reached the topmost-happiest point of our relationship. Everything is just smooth sailing and falling in its proper place. I know for sure he is The One.


Well, I have this book sitting on my shelf for over a year now (part of my heaps of odd habits is writing down the date when I scored a book). Took me months of waiting and bookstore-hopping to get my hands on this find, that I can't even remember why I've benched reading it for this long a time.


Anyway,  apparently it's "the smart girl's breakup buddy." 


Similar to HJNTITY, it has upfront, astute and refreshing ripostes, concepts, real-life clamor on women's much disapproved issue of breakups. The one scenario that instantly sends women's esteem in a downward-spiral and their weight up in the sky. 


There's no doubt about it, breakups really suck. 
That line was mentioned one too many times in the book that I sorta felt their absolute repugnance against it. And, regardless of my strong aversion to include it on this entry, it caused me to relive my personal breakup battle a couple of years back. The emotional tailspin that I endured, I cannot simply forget. In any case, it's a mere chunk of my horrible past relationship that I ought to bury in the deepest trenches of my head. Along with the name and the memory of that person.


Now my entry's beginning to sound like the psycho-confessionals part of the book. I cannot, for the life of me, make that happen. How I mocked their ridiculous reasonings is just so mean and then I become somewhat like them? NO FREAKING WAY!


Moving on to happy thoughts. Here's my positive take on endings, not just breakups per se:

"Do dwell on endings much the same as beginnings. Welcome it with a lasting zeal and with the highest esteem. For at the end of the day, with every end comes a new beginning and with every beginning comes an ending, one of the many misconstrued-benevolent cycles of human life.