For What It's Worth

You meet a guy and you think he is great! Mentally, you see the list and all the checks of all the requirements he meets. Things are just going so well. You are together one enchanted night, one delightful month, or even one marvelous year. Regardless, you have invested and think you could never quite match this experience with another. Maybe it is the way he kissed you passionately in the back of a cab to some unknown destination. Maybe it was how he charmed you each day with roses. Maybe it was his ability to whisk you away on a moments notice to his summer home, buy you a piece of Tiffany’s to add to your collection, or foot the bill for your Louis Vuitton. When it was all said and done and he didn’t call back or gradually fizzled out of your life or was unfaithful. Whatever way it ended, you were left hurt, bruised, broken. You thought you would never again find that. Your eyes leaked a few tears, you spat out vile, vicious words, and you used his old t-shirt to clean your toilet. Time passed by. New men drifted along and drifted by, none of who quite measured up and it was almost cemented that you would never again find it again. And then one day…maybe it was the time that another guy kissed you in the back of another cab and made the first time a distant memory. Maybe it was the notes left on your windshield by the next charmer. Maybe it was meeting that other guy who could take you to Barneys or Balthazar. It is then that you conclude that for the most part, they really are a dime a dozen. Easily replaced. Easily interchangeable. You will meet another. You will meet one that will be willing to work and invest in you. Keep hope alive. Your million-dollar man will come.