The Women Who Live in My Mind
Love, attraction, and desire can be strange, unpredictable things. Sometimes, they linger far beyond reason, attaching themselves to people who may never truly be ours. My love life—or rather, my thoughts about love—feels like a collection of unfinished stories, emotions that never fully settled, and desires that exist only in my mind. I find myself caught between past connections, old crushes, and fleeting attractions, none of which have ever truly come to fruition. It’s a situation that makes me feel a little crazy at times, yet I can’t seem to shake these thoughts. There’s the older woman, the one I worked with two years ago. She’s married, has kids, and yet she still crosses my mind every single day. But it’s not just nostalgia or admiration—it’s deeper than that. I think about her in a way I probably shouldn’t, imagining scenarios where she’s with me instead of the life she’s built with someone else. I don’t know if it’s the fact that she’s unattainable that makes me want her more...