I'm So Happy I'm a Girl!!

I discovered a new Blog (A Cup of Coffey) recently and fell head over heels with her Playlists. She had made a fabulous one of women covering songs that were originally written or sung by men. Wow!
I spent the next two hours creating my own version: Girls Can Do It Better.
It, too, is all songs sung by women that were originally written and sung by men. Needless to say, it rocks!
You can imagine what almost all the songs are about....love. The loss of love.
I don't doubt that men love. I'm sure they fall madly in love. I can guess that their days could become consumed with thoughts of the one they love, and I suspect that they suffer heartbreak as much as women do......but I am still convinced that women just do it better! Who can agonize over one little word the way a woman does? Does a man really make a pact with himself, "If I wait and make dinner or do the dishes or study for the exam or paint my toenails BEFORE I check my messages, he will have called...there WILL be a message from him..." Do you know of any boy that FORGIVES the way a girl does? Who keeps going back for more? And even when we've had enough....the love is still there. It has become a part of us. Changed us. So, we write about it. A poem, a story, a song. Or we paint or sculpt our passion, and make it real. We cut our hair, lose 10 lbs, feel terrible, feel like dying. We moan and cry and scream and regret. We are desperate to KNOW what the fuck went wrong! We hate. We blame. We even pretend (for a while) that we don't give a damn. Our capacity for Passion is what makes us different than men. (I'm not going to say better, I've decided...just different) Sometimes, our love is renewed. We get a second chance. Mostly, though, it fades away...the pain and the heartbreak, and becomes something else...a fond memory. Really, after enough time, women look back on every love fondly. Not necessarily fondness for the one we loved, but for ourselves..the way we were then. No matter how broken our hearts have been, we loved BEING IN LOVE.
And so, with great gusto, and often forsaking all lessons learned, we do it again! Plunge into the next great love affair!
Heart first!