High School Drama Files: Episode #2 - Splinter

Teenage self:

When I was heart with a splinter, Your blood kept me alive...That is, until I began showing you my gratitude, the depths of my heart, the passions of my soul.  Then was the time where I began to lose you, pushing you away with my kindness, destroying what we had with my gifts of affection...I killed you with my kindness, I destroyed "us" with my love...And now when I am that heart with that splinter, you are no longer there to keep my alive...

29 year old self:

Well that's kind of depressing - in a soap opera kind of way.  What the hell was I thinking?

When I was heart with a splinter, Your blood kept me alive...
Definitely lyrics from the song "Crystal Clear" by Jaci Velasquez.  For some reason I was really into a couple of her songs in high school - mainly "Crystal Clear" and "Imagine Me Without You."  I guess at the time I didn't realize that she was a contemporary Christian artist and that while her lyrics sounded like really romantic stuff, she was really talking about her relationship with God.  Whoops!  

That is, until I began showing you my gratitude, the depths of my heart, the passions of my soul.  Then was the time where I began to lose you, pushing you away with my kindness, destroying what we had with my gifts of affection...
I'm pretty sure this was another classic "woe is me" moment where I'd pity myself and make myself a martyr because a dumb high school relationship didn't pan out.  Drama king much?

I killed you with my kindness, I destroyed "us" with my love...And now when I am that heart with that splinter, you are no longer there to keep my alive...
One word:  hyperbole.  No I didn't really kill you with my kindness.  You probably got bored - we were teenagers.  Boredom was our essence.  And how does one destroy love with love?  Isn't that like killing kittens with cuteness?  The depths of the teenage mind are staggering.  And I'm obviously still alive today so I guess that splinter wasn't too bad after all.  In fact, it probably wasn't even a splinter at all.  My relationship turmoil was probably more like a paper cut - an insignificant wound to my overall health, but damn did it hurt like hell at the time.