...and yet it's not. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
So someone I know drinks what's been variously described as "a bottle of Jack in an hour" and "a couple of drinks every night", and smokes 2 packs a day. As a change from someone who was quitting smoking to the point of smoking absolutely nothing for two months, and drinking maybe one beer or wine cooler or similar drink every other day or so, I'd say that would be a dramatic change. Not dramatic as in way the hell overreacting over something teeny, that would be dramatic as in something is dramatically wrong with someone I consider a friend and I don't know what I can do to help out. Besides stressing about it in a very public place, of course.
As for love?
Love is funny. It's always been funny. People in love, people dealing with love, come in a limited variety of flavors. Tragic, of course, right there with Romeo and Juliet. Sweet, sickening, and disgusting -- those are the romances too perfect to be real. Then there's comedic, like General Romeo Vorkosigan, the One-Man Strike Force.
When somebody like that's up in your face, of course you want to smack them one. It's part of life. And of course, when somebody else hears about their damn annoying exploits, it's the funniest thing in the world. Watching someone else make a fool of themselves at a safe range, where there's very little chance of catching a pie in the face... that's damn funny. Perhaps it might have been more diplomatic to phrase it, "I feel for you, but it's still damn funny..."
I feel for you, sweetie. But you've got to admit, if she was a character in a movie, or an anime, she'd be drawn with bright purple hair, hearts in her eyes and floating in the air around her, and she'd have some sort of cupid bow with her, and she'd always be hitting the wrong people with the heart-shaped arrows... and, in that context, as something happening very far away to someone else... it would be damn funny.
Oh, to be eighteen again.