The Boyfriend Book by Michael E. Reid

Author:Michael E. Reid [Reid, Michael E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633538474
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2018-12-07T09:18:28+00:00

Practice

During the Miami leg of the tour, there was a young lady aged eighteen who told me that she liked the idea of having a boyfriend. She said, “It would be good practice for the real thing.” I told her, “You cannot practice love, only experience it, and I’m pretty sure you don’t want anything less than love, so what are you practicing?”

She replied, “Well, how can I experience love if I don’t try to fall in it?” I told her, “Baby girl, you are love. So, fall in yourself. Before you ever fall for a man, you must witness him preparing a place for you to land.”

I think about how many other women think like her. So many women are so in a rush to give some of the best years of their lives away—for practice. I asked her how much practice she thought she needed. She smiled and said, “A lot.” Then I made her an offer: I told her I would let her have her practice if she agreed to always practice with at least two people at the same time. She refused. She told me, “You can’t give your all to two people at the same time.” (Yes. She said, “your all.” Meaning everything she’s got. For practice. Not the actual game. But practice.) So before we iron out this “give your all” wrinkle in her armor, let’s focus on the exclusive aspect.

If I had to pick my beefs with the concept of boyfriend, the biggest one is exclusivity. For some men, this is the one thing that they’re scared to death about. I’m pretty sure some women are too. My question to you is, if that can be seen as one of the scariest things, since it eliminates the option for you to go elsewhere, how could you want to give that up for practice?

I’ve seen so many women throw so many valuable years away for boyfriends. You meet a guy when you’re eighteen. You think he’s the love of your life. You let him hang around until you’re twenty-two. Then you realize that while some boys’ bodies leave high school, their minds don’t. And you’ve spent more practice years learning how to forgive, and then to forget. Then you meet another guy, and since you gave the last guy “your all,” you probably fell “all the way in love” with that last guy.

Even though it ended, you were still bitten by the love bug, the most dangerous drug on earth. So, you want more love now, but you also want it faster, and, of course, better. You make it a point to go out and try to right your wrongs; you try to prove that it wasn’t you, it was them. Don’t you think both of you know that already?

Anyway, next thing you know, you’re back at practice, this time at twenty-three. You try to find love and yourself…only to discover that you’re behind. You’re behind because you spent four years of your life

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