Herbie...

I just wanted to post this as a prequel to my next post, The Anti-Herbie....

It has come to my attention that there's been a bug going around, a love bug. Let's call it Herbie. It seems that relationships and pairings are spring up all over the place and it seems like every one has been infected with this "Jonas Brothers-type" ailment... You know, their song:

"Now I'm speechless, over the edge
I'm just breathless
I never thought that I'd catch this love bug again
Hopeless, head over heels in the moment
I never thought that I'd get hit by this love bug again."

Now I'm not one to jump to conclusions about things, well I am, but i didn't about this particular thing. However, in the stillness of 2009's first Sabbath morning, I lay awake in bed and considered it all. I noted that there's a very real possibility that the beginning of relationships are seasonal. Stay with me now, I'm not saying that your thing isn't real, I'm just saying there might be a reason you're doing this now and not three months ago!

I think that in the summer, everyone seeks to be free, single and disengaged, and there's a logical explanation. Summer is a time for flings and "summer love", especially if you get to travel to a different country. Because you know that there must be someone you will meet over the summer who you will fancy and although you know that it must conclude when school begins again and the air begins to chill, it's always worth the time and the fond memories last a lifetime.

The summer is also when girls go to the beach to show off their "summer" bodies. And which guy can think of a better way to spend a day than hanging with chicks we've never seen before in skimpy bikinis? No one want's to be the guy or the girl who can't have some fun at a beach day, 'cause they're "happily committed"...lol!!!

Big movies always come out in the summer, providing the perfect opportunity to take-out that girl you just met, or to be taken out. It provides you some perfect make-out opportunities, after which u can take a stroll in the mid-summer night air, having spent all your gas money taking this girl to the movies!

So if summer is the time for flings, winter would be...the time for real loving!?

Winter is cold and who knows, but this epidemic could be a simple thermal issue!? There is a distinct possibility that we finally work up the nerve to go hang with that girl or guy we always liked simply because we feel the cold coming on. I think that's why fall semesters bare the most relationships. It may be a case of seeking to make "body heat, when bodies meet!"

Fall brings Thanksgiving and a few short weeks later, as the real chill takes effect, Christmas. With all those happy feelings floating around, each of us is bound to get some of it on us! So it doesn't surprise me that we run into the arms of the one we'd most like to hug and be with because we're so happy. And if we're already in a relationship, we stay, 'cause honestly the only good reason to break up with a girl at Christmas is that she brought you home to meet her family and they're all a bunch of crazies, and that includes your girl!

Winter also brings with it the prospect of a warmer time approaching, the spring. And spring is when love really starts to bloom. Which each reopening rose bud, a new love is born and hope "springs". But to get to spring love, on must brave the harsh winter's snow and bone-chilling blizzard force winds to plant a seed, a bug, that will one day become a mature infection of LOVE.