New Flames

New Flames are exciting aren't they?  You meet someone awesome and you're hooked. Everything is amazing and you thinking of just keeping this one around. You see nothing wrong with this new flame. Even the little "flaws" seem adorable.


Question: How many times have you felt like that about a new flame and then realised that it won't work? Once? That's good. More than once? Well eish... I've been there.

See the problem in most cases is that we hide so much of ourselves in the first few months because we don't wanna scare people off. We don't wanna fart around someone new because it's weird. We do so much just trying to impress this new person that we even forget to be ourselves at times. All of this just to impress this new person.

How long can you really keep that up? Couple of months at best. Truth is the new flame probably won't like your farts 3 months down the line anyway. Anything that they find irritating 5 months down the line, they'll find them irritating even after day 5. That's why the 'you've changed arguments' come up down the line. No one changed, just that no one was being real to begin with.

I'm done with society's rules on how relationships should go. Anyone worth having around will appreciate everything about you a month in. I'm done with new flames that can easily be put out. I'm tryna spark a flame as magnificent as a strip magnesium burning in the presence of oxygen.

Funny enough,  water can't extinguish this type of flame. ;)