For those of you familiar to the show How I Met Your Mother, precisely Season 5 Episode 16: On the Hook, you're going to have no trouble understanding everything I'm about to write. For those of you lost, here is a brief explanation:
In the show How I Met Your Mother, five friends discuss life at a local pub in NYC. They're all best friends, and one day they started talking about what it is to be stuck on someone's hook. It's basically that person who keeps promising a relationship later on, just not now. Example: Daisy Doo tells Billy Goo that she likes him, but she has a boyfriend. She says she would love to get to know him better, just not now. So for as long as long as Billy Goo is stuck on Daisy Doo's hook, he will do whatever he can to please her, in hopes of winning a relationship with her. This includes bringing her soup when she's sick, giving her foot rubs, and feeding her endless amounts of chocolate cake. These interactions with Daisy Doo make Billy Goo believe she might actually really like him, and there is hope. But let me tell you now, friends, Daisy Doo just doesn't have the lady chest balls to say she doesn't like him. Anyways, this is what being on the hook is. That false sense of hope because the person of your affection has promised a relationship, that realistically, wont come.
Back to me. :-)
My sister knows all about this guy that I like, yes? Yes.
One day after watching that episode she tells me, "you are on Ted's hook." (That is what we're going to call him, Ted.) Immediately I object to this accusation, for several reasons. First off, Ted has never promised me a relationship - ever. Secondly, I do not give him foot rubs and feed him cake. Thirdly, I do not sit around hoping ...
And that is when it hit me. Ted really doesn't have to promise me anything for me to be on his hook. It doesn't stop me from wishing he'd come around, begging me to be with him. It doesn't stop me from wanting to please him, which means listening to all this music he sends to me and giving him feedback (could this be a replacement for feeding him chocolate cake?). And don't get me wrong, guys, I actually enjoy some of the music, but sometimes I notice... that when I'm listening to a song he sends me, the only reason I'm listening to it is because I want a reason to talk to him. It sucks. So maybe I really am on Ted's hook. I mean all the symptoms are there - it's pathetic, really. I just wish I knew how to free my little fish tail and swim off to the other fish in the sea, because right now he's got me stuck on his hook.
But, oh, this is not the end, my good people. If I am stuck on Ted's hook, is he stuck on anyone's hook? Is anyone stuck on my hook? Is anyone stuck on your hook? Are you stuck on anyone else's hook? And the real Ted, from How I Met Your Mother, was right. It all is just a vicious cycle. So if you can, get off the hooks. Stop dragging people around by your big, spiky, hook and just let them go. And stop being dragged around by someone who, honestly, doesn't want you.
In the show How I Met Your Mother, five friends discuss life at a local pub in NYC. They're all best friends, and one day they started talking about what it is to be stuck on someone's hook. It's basically that person who keeps promising a relationship later on, just not now. Example: Daisy Doo tells Billy Goo that she likes him, but she has a boyfriend. She says she would love to get to know him better, just not now. So for as long as long as Billy Goo is stuck on Daisy Doo's hook, he will do whatever he can to please her, in hopes of winning a relationship with her. This includes bringing her soup when she's sick, giving her foot rubs, and feeding her endless amounts of chocolate cake. These interactions with Daisy Doo make Billy Goo believe she might actually really like him, and there is hope. But let me tell you now, friends, Daisy Doo just doesn't have the lady chest balls to say she doesn't like him. Anyways, this is what being on the hook is. That false sense of hope because the person of your affection has promised a relationship, that realistically, wont come.
Back to me. :-)
My sister knows all about this guy that I like, yes? Yes.
One day after watching that episode she tells me, "you are on Ted's hook." (That is what we're going to call him, Ted.) Immediately I object to this accusation, for several reasons. First off, Ted has never promised me a relationship - ever. Secondly, I do not give him foot rubs and feed him cake. Thirdly, I do not sit around hoping ...
And that is when it hit me. Ted really doesn't have to promise me anything for me to be on his hook. It doesn't stop me from wishing he'd come around, begging me to be with him. It doesn't stop me from wanting to please him, which means listening to all this music he sends to me and giving him feedback (could this be a replacement for feeding him chocolate cake?). And don't get me wrong, guys, I actually enjoy some of the music, but sometimes I notice... that when I'm listening to a song he sends me, the only reason I'm listening to it is because I want a reason to talk to him. It sucks. So maybe I really am on Ted's hook. I mean all the symptoms are there - it's pathetic, really. I just wish I knew how to free my little fish tail and swim off to the other fish in the sea, because right now he's got me stuck on his hook.
But, oh, this is not the end, my good people. If I am stuck on Ted's hook, is he stuck on anyone's hook? Is anyone stuck on my hook? Is anyone stuck on your hook? Are you stuck on anyone else's hook? And the real Ted, from How I Met Your Mother, was right. It all is just a vicious cycle. So if you can, get off the hooks. Stop dragging people around by your big, spiky, hook and just let them go. And stop being dragged around by someone who, honestly, doesn't want you.