I don’t think much about the ex anymore.<\/p>\n
No, really.<\/p>\n
Her name comes up occasionally in conversation, the talk moves on, and that’s that. No big emotions, no big deal.<\/p>\n
However, in the last few days, I finally decided I didn’t like living in an apartment which, six months after move-in, still looks like a Box Brothers store. So I’ve been making an effort to get the rest of my shit unpacked. That process entailed *repacking* some paperwork and a few stray possessions that need to be shipped to her, on the off-chance that some of it may be important. Also because I promised I’d send it, and I’d consider myself a mean sucky bastard if I just threw it away. (Not that I don’t aspire to mean sucky bastardhood, but chucking her stuff seems too petty a way to earn the designation.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, handling these artifacts did produce an unwelcome emotional response: acute irritation, directed not at the ex but at Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n
The passage of time *is* relative, not only to physical position and velocity but to geographical distance and psychological states.<\/p>\n
Major news flash, I know.<\/p>\n
Still, something galls me about the fact that, from what little I know of her life since the breakup, she’s moved on — and on — and on. To her, I’m almost certainly an ancient tale written in fading ink on crumbling papyrus. To me, she’s a month-old issue of *Time*; the news is stale, but the ads are probably still valid.<\/p>\n
My point, I suppose, is that time dilation is a bitch.<\/p>\n
And then you die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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