widdershins

To walk "widdershins" is to walk counterclockwise or backward around something. It's a classic pathway into the fairy realm. It's also the way people often back slowly into the relationships that matter, the real ones that make for a life.


"Remember how it was when we were young? It was a dance, couples pairing up, together one month, the next everybody has a new partner, sometimes from within your social circle, other times a stranger brought in, but there was always this ebb and flow, like a tide, as though dating and love were a game of musical chairs, except you played it with your heart.
As I've gotten older, I've found that we seem to divide into two camps: the ones who keep a partner and settle down, maybe have kids, maybe buy a house; and the ones who stay in the musical-chairs dance and end up living on their own, who are on their own for longer and longer periods of time until they grow to like their solitary lifestyle - or at least accept it. Some keep a hope buried for that certain someone to fall into their lives, but nobody's really looking anymore. Or they're not looking hard.
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when that happens.
For me, hope runs eternal, even though my relationships never really work out in the long run. Maybe I set my sights too high. Maybe I'm just hopeless. I don't know. Or maybe I just never met the right person, for all the times I thought I did.
Or maybe I did meet the right person, but I never knew it and went out with their sibling or friend instead.
Or maybe I did know it, but I told myself it was never going to work out......"

-Charles de Lint

It's amusing sometimes when you pose a question to a book....and find this!