95. END FIRST KISS Part 1: AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE ...

95.  END FIRST KISS Part 1:  AH!  SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE ...

INSIGHT INTO A YOUNG GIRL’S INNER LIFE ...

Ah sweet mystery of life:
When to raise denial's shield
Or when to muster the courage
To confront subconscious fear?

That is the question.

If that is the question
And if readiness is the answer
Then what is THE problem?
THE problem is this:

As soon as a surge of confusion
Wrestles with subconscious fear
A combustible state of negatively charged energy
Stands ready to explode common sense.

And now, my friends, Annie and Joseph are about to show you what happens when two symbols of confusion clash against each other, like crashing cymbals—so here it comes—TRUE LOVE’S FIRST IMPASSIONED KISS …

While standing in the alley, staring down at Annie, a blushing Joseph blurts out:  Annie—Billy is having a party (their first boy and girl date party), and I want you to go with me.  Needless to say, Annie can't believe her ears.  First of all, she's never been to a boy and girl party.  Secondly, there's no way this tall, handsome, popular Leader of the Pack would choose Miss P over doe-like Hillary or gorgeous Viv!

As enchantment knocks out logic, a nice boy with nerves jangling and a good girl, who’s swooning, are swept into love's magic spell where she can't connect with words to reply, and he fears rejection.  Finally, this spell, holding two minds hostage, is pierced by jagged words:  Annie-do-you-wanna go-with-me-or-not?

As Annie’s mind is stuck in a spell bound state of shock, Joseph's boyish hopes turn to ire.  Once defensiveness invades his mind, star struck eyes flash fire as he sputters sharply:  Oh—just forget it!

At this, Annie stirs just enough to blurt out:  Wait!  I wanna go!

With a huge surge of relief, Joseph lunges, and swooping Annie around the waist, he yanks this dizzied girl against the length of his body—Then as this star crossed pair engage in their very first, impassioned bear hug, twelve year old Joseph plants True Love's First Kiss squarely on his brain dead sweetheart's lips.

I wish my next words were:  Then they went steady and lived happily ever after—THE END ... But that fantasy is not what reality had in mind.

Instead, impassioned reactions splash, back and forth, because this pair of tussling preteens has no clue how to regain, much less maintain, emotional control.  As I'm sure you'd like to see Annie's spontaneous reaction to Captain Hormone's impassioned lip lock, please tune in tomorrow to see why all hell is about to break loose ...

Good Lord—if only the spirit of Socrates had been soaring overhead puppy love might have had a shot ...  If not Socrates, couldn't fate have conjured up a therapist, cycling by, who could toss them a bit of knowledge concerning subconscious devils on the loose ...