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Stolen from a Tribe Discussion
Oct. 22nd, 2005 11:38 amI'm not currenly suffering from this affliction, but I certainly have in the past. I thought it was eloquently described and worth posting...
BCF Syndrome
I'd never heard of it either, until a girlfriend told me about it. I mean, I'd HEARD of it, heck, I'd gotten it a few times, but never knew there was a common NAME for it.
It's so-called after the black cord that connects your telephone to the wall. Symptoms of BCF are late night sudden urges to call exes, inexplicable memory losses regarding the good reasons you aren't seeing that ex, etc.
In general, if two people both get BCF at the same time, they will end up in bed together, especially if they are in the Gray Area.
The Gray Area (excerpted from www.clotho.net/relationsh...akup.html): <http://www.clotho.net/relationships/edwardbreakup.html):>
When they leave us or we leave them, there seems to always be that last unfinished thing, that slender thread of retrieval that only snaps when they find someone else. It also snaps when we find someone else, but we hardly notice it, because we're busy reweaving something new.
It's a terrible thing to see that silvery thread, snapped at the far distant point, come curling back to us. In some senses, we've lowered ourselves into a well and that one last rope is slithering down, cut from above, coiling at our feet.
Damn it. It's not the final cut that kills us, I think it's the realizing that we had the rope up there in the first place. We didn't even KNOW we had hope and now, the hope that we tried desperately to not depend on has suddenly evaporated.
It is at this exact moment that we feel truly alone.
BCF Syndrome
I'd never heard of it either, until a girlfriend told me about it. I mean, I'd HEARD of it, heck, I'd gotten it a few times, but never knew there was a common NAME for it.
It's so-called after the black cord that connects your telephone to the wall. Symptoms of BCF are late night sudden urges to call exes, inexplicable memory losses regarding the good reasons you aren't seeing that ex, etc.
In general, if two people both get BCF at the same time, they will end up in bed together, especially if they are in the Gray Area.
The Gray Area (excerpted from www.clotho.net/relationsh...akup.html): <http://www.clotho.net/relationships/edwardbreakup.html):>
When they leave us or we leave them, there seems to always be that last unfinished thing, that slender thread of retrieval that only snaps when they find someone else. It also snaps when we find someone else, but we hardly notice it, because we're busy reweaving something new.
It's a terrible thing to see that silvery thread, snapped at the far distant point, come curling back to us. In some senses, we've lowered ourselves into a well and that one last rope is slithering down, cut from above, coiling at our feet.
Damn it. It's not the final cut that kills us, I think it's the realizing that we had the rope up there in the first place. We didn't even KNOW we had hope and now, the hope that we tried desperately to not depend on has suddenly evaporated.
It is at this exact moment that we feel truly alone.
