Peter Rook: What do you get when you fall in love?
The song goes, "What do you get when you fall in love? A girl with a pin to burst your bubble?"
The song goes, "What do you get when you fall in love? A girl with a pin to burst your bubble?"Sticking with this balloon theme, my advice would be to get a helium balloon and suck all the gas out of it and do Joe Pasquale impressions before she can prick it with her pin. In other words deflate the balloon before she does.
It was Burt Bacharach that wrote "I'll never fall in love again" it sums up the bitterness felt by many a MADman I have met.
If "I'll never fall in love again" has become your anthem since divorce, then it's high time that you set aside your cynicism and believed that, yes, you can fall in love again.
I'm not one for making new year's resolutions but it's time to turn over a new leaf, make a fresh start, seize the day and other similar clichs.
Say to yourself: "I can find love again." Go on! Say it! Out Loud! (Apologies if I'm beginning to sound a bit like an American motivational speaker fleecing naive punters wracked with low self-esteem).
It is important that you hold on to the belief, however flimsy, that you can fall in love again. If you don't, you are likely to end up a bitter and twisted, lonely old soul with a house full of old newspapers full of excrement.
Don't believe me? Then take a look at me! I was once like you! (I'd like point out before we go any further that I do not possess a house full of old newspapers full of excrement – that was a metaphor for loneliness in case you weren't sure)
Dear reader I have seen MADmen who used to wear their hearts on their sleeves. Now their hearts have disappeared and sit buried under their armpits and no deodorant can mask the rotting stench.
It may be hard to believe but I too once wore my heart on my sleeve. I used to believe in love at first sight... but then again my eyesight has always been a bit ropey.
Now my heart remains hidden beneath layers of thick knitted sweaters.
This is both a literal and metaphorical reference since I'm a bit more partial to the cold these days and I'm trying to keep my heating bills down a bit since there is only me in the house and I can't justify the gas central heating on when I'm only occupying one room.
There you go, there's another reason for finding true love – you can cuddle up with the apple of your eye and you can split the gas bill in half (who says romance is dead).
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