My friends advised me to persist, not to lose heart and to continue to demonstrate my interest, but I think I will give up hope. I gave this woman the last year of my life and I think she barely noticed my existence. For goodness sake, he always keeps me in mind when it comes to acting as a “buffer” between one appointment with a “rising star” and another. I’m fine for rushing to her house late in the evening when something went wrong bringing boxes of pizza and comfort, but nothing more. And I’m starting to think it will always be like this. The other day, maximum humiliation, she even asked me to accompany her to buy a dress… for dinner with someone else. So, once we returned to the agency, I also finished the project for one of her campaigns (we work as advertisers in the same company) to allow her to go out early and get ready for the evening with that unbearable guy she thinks she’s seeing now. A being completely unsuitable for her. So this too will last like a cat on the ring road and I’ll be good enough to pick up the pieces. I’m her blanket, tears and sofa man. But never let it occur to her that on that sofa, me with her, I would like to be there in a completely different way.
The unattainable idiot, Fabio
Oh, but how much ungenerousness towards him! And I am referring to you, Fabio, even before your emotionally impaired friend. Do you really think you’re the only idiot who has dedicated a year of his life to a situation like this? No. So she is not “unreachable” at all. At most just stupid… I’m joking obviously. Indeed, I even feel like disagreeing with his self-definition because he has demonstrated, in these tiring 365 days, that he is a generous, balanced and patient person. Enough though. Don’t listen to your friends. Get up from that sofa without drama, leave the tear-soaked pizza boxes there and head out the door. It’s not nice to deprive your colleague of such a precious friend but it is essential that she gets her life back. I agree with you when you conclude that you have to bury your hopes. If her friend had any interest in her, she would have already shown it.
And rest assured that, if he were to realize something in the future, it will be much easier for him to do it with her a thousand miles away from her whining kennel than with her perpetually available like a loving grandmother. Go away, before you start crocheting doilies.