Throwback Thursday

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November 20th, 2007

Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a man gifted with the mysterious ability to bring the dead back to life just by touching them. However, there are a couple of conditions: if he touches the revived person a second time, they die permanently; and if a person is revived for more than one minute, someone nearby dies.

Chuck, whom Ned hasn't seen since childhood, has been murdered on a cruise. When her body is shipped back home, Ned revives her, but can't bear to touch her a second time; the larcenous funeral home director falls dead in her place. Ned and Chuck fall in love again and he brings her home to live with him, but they can never touch each other.

My relationship feels much the same way as Ned’s. We have an “us” but just like Chuck and Ned we can never touch or someone would die, in this case it would be his girlfriend. The way we look at each other tells the story of how much we love each other, but the circumstances keeps us away from each other and just like Ned dreams of Chuck kissing him, I dream of him being with me and finally confessing his true feelings for me to the world. I don’t know how magical this will turn out to be. One can only hope. I don’t know exactly how to do that or on what grounds to do so, but hope is all I have to keep me sane.

I think when I first started this, I knew what I was getting myself into but now I think its going to be hard to get out of. I want to leave it alone but something keeps pushing me back into his arms and I am dying for him to feel the same. I want him to yearn for me and not be able to leave me or go through a day where he can’t stop thinking of me. I want him to want me where he finally makes his decision, no matter how hard it is, to leave her and be back with me.

But life is not a fairytale and dreams don’t come true. We have to accept the reality and the reality is that he is happy with his life. I am just a stumbling block on his road and besides Friday, I will leave this situation and him at rest. “Ned has just touched Chuck.”