The Truth Behind Glasses & Dating

You know how when you first buy something new, you take great care of it. For example eyeglasses. When I first buy a brand new pair of glasses, I make sure they stay in their protective case and never leave them lying around in case I sit on them or somebody else sits on them. I wash them regularly and take great care of them. This honeymoon will go on for about two weeks and then the familiarity breaks in. I stop putting them inside their protective case, I wash them less often and soon I start to have to search everywhere for them because I place them where-ever they land and never can remember where I had put them. Months pass, and I actually will throw the glasses onto the bed and even accidently sit on them! They will end up in the laundry room or on the front seat in the car. They somehow end up in the dirty laundry room inside a dirty pair of pants pocket. Or even somebody else's pants pocket! Now that is odd except we all wear glasses in the family. I have even found a pair of glasses after having gone through the wash and spin cycle. "Oh, there you are, you naughty glasses, you!" I wish glasses could come with beepers so you can beep and find them!
I keep an old pair of glasses in order to find the missing pair of glasses. Somehow each pair of glasses I had once cherished and admired and respected and loved, became less cherished, admired, respected and loved. Does this same situation happen in a relationship? I recall my relationships with men when I was younger and how I would spend an hour putting on makeup and another hour fixing up my hair and in such a panic looking for the perfect, sexy and flattering outfit. And then after awhile, the makeup goes on less, the hair stays in a pony tail or up without care and the outfit? Who cares? The familiarity has set in. Are glasses and dating the same somehow?
I wonder how glasses and relationships can be the same? Like a map we follow no matter what the outcome. No matter what we started with, being either materialistic and/or emotional, the routine and familiar course sets in and we start off with using great care to the oblivious. When we start off with the unfamiliar we react differently to the time when the familiar has become routine and mundane. How can such opposite things share such common ground? Are we preconditioned? Are we nuts?
This is surely something to think about and perhaps therapists can have fun figuring this out. Even when I buy a brand new magazine for pete's sake (I always wanted to use that expression, so here it is) I will take the one from the back of the pile. The cleaner, newer and fresher one nobody has tampered with. I will take it home it its own brown paper bag and take it out carefully to not crease or stain it. You can guess that after the first few days of flipping the pages, this poor magazine has become a pre recycle product on the bathroom floor with water and soap stains all over.
I suppose human nature runs its course on some kind of pre existing new, familiar, used and dead. Like life. We are more careful when it is new, nonchalant when familiar and bored when used and then we go back to our first impression when non existant. Curious, isn't it? Also, idiotic but interesting all the same.

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