Potential Energy

Day: Sunday, March 21, 2010.
Time: approximately 10.43 am.
Place: Youth Conference Committee Meeting.
Outcome: small epiphany.

There's one boy my age on the committee and luckily we're friends. Today as we were sitting by each other at the meeting, I began doodling on my paper. He stole it and drew a cliff with a sheep walking toward the edge and another already falling. At the bottom was a boiling pot labeled "sheep soup". Clever. I drew an Amish-looking girl smiling sweetly, holding a big ladle, waiting for the sheep. For his turn he drew a dragon heating the soup with its fire and saying "I love sheep soup..." and then proceeded to draw a noose around the girl's neck, attach it to the cliff and draw X's over her eyes. Grim. But I'd go along with it. I drew a vulture circling above the cliff and a girl holding a sword up beneath the dragon. For his turn it was a hunter pointing a gun at the vulture with a bullet and blood coming out it's back. Plus a sword already in the dragon. Oh. And a "nuke"-of course.
Can you picture all of this?
This is where I had a small epiphany. I draw something that could maybe happen; something that holds a slight sense of either doom or the unknown (in the simplest, most juvenile sense). And he finishes it up by removing any question of what happened. It's dead. She's dead. The End.
At the top of the page I wrote "Males, in all things-whether in joint drawings of relationships-seem to be in the habit of killing off any potential energy that presents itself." Have they no decency?
Yes, there are always exceptions to such broad, general statements. But. It does seem to happen more often that girls tend to enjoy the potential energy that comes from meeting a guy, maybe liking him, thinking he maybe likes her, getting to know him etc etc. It's the unknown that's exciting. It's fun. Then the boys go and kill it all off as quickly as possible. It seems to be their nature to remove any mystery they can. They "get a girl" then they're happy for a time. Pleased with the "end result" that, inevitably, just has to end itself.
Personally, I prefer to enjoy the any potential energy that comes my way.
Speaking of which...it's practically spring... :)