Committed and Quasi-Committed

While walking through the wet streets of Castries, torrents beating down on my umbrella turn strainer, I had a thought of a post; a light bulb moment - not really more like I need to get rid of my mental toxins moment; you know how it is - when the body wants to get rid of toxins in your body, you piss, shit or sweat - when my mind needs to get rid of toxins I vent, verbally or written. In this case I opt to write. I need to get rid of toxins, not because I am vexed by them, but to use a medical adage "better out than in".

As with most of my post this has its genesis in the affairs of man and woman - in committed and quasi-committed relationships; don't ask what's quasi-committed relationships, I just made it up. Right, where was I - yes; committed, not as it sent to the lunny bin, but as in commitment - something entered into for the long haul (of course this is not the official definition; nor the definition often used when spoken in the context of relationships); but between these lines of black and white, committed and commitment means what ever I say it means.

Oh gosh, again I digress. So the words often repeated, inspired by different emotions fueled (or not) by liquid courage, or that euphoric feeling experienced at the end of a surging orgasm, or some emotionally traumatic experience is - "...you know I eh leaving you..." or some variation of those words amount to the same thing - these few words got me thinking a bit. What is meant by these words? Why do we say them? Is there fine print whispered under the breath of the person saying it - is it a conditional statement? Is it "...I eh leaving you..." in words and until better comes in thoughts, or I eh leaving you in words and until you fuck up in thoughts. Does this statement carry any weight? I suppose it is dependent on the level of commitment or quasi-commitment as it were. My experience has taught me that no definitive statement can be made on staying power, not in committed nor quasi-committed relationships. Ultimately time unravels all mysteries and brings to light the truth about how much your committed or quasi-committed partner eh going to leave you.

Yep so that was it propagated on random conversation.