Loving Lucy

Lucy Thandi has always been the kind of person to wear her heart on her sleeves and allow just about anyone to walk all over her, my mom says she is just being nice because she has a heart of gold but I think she is just being dumb and failing to learn from previous mistakes. Every time I tell her this and implore her to put herself first for a change she just laughs and tells me I'll take it back when love hits me in the face one day. Thandi has had so many heartbreaks over the last two years alone that she should really be cynical about love by now but she just wont give up. She really believes that she will find her prince charming one day. I think true romantic love is a load of crap used by anyone who wants attention to fool the rest of us into believing that its real so they can exploit us for all we are worth. I don't believe in love and so I don't even bother with relationships. I'm very practical about life and I am no damsel in distress waiting for Prince Charming to come and save me. Thandi on the other hand does, which is why I find myself yet again sitting on her coach eating B&J, Doritos and drowning it all down with copious amounts of soda. This is really not good for my health but she is my BFF so I've got her back and that means helping her drown her sorrow after yet another breakup. I really want to kill Josh he is such a jerk. Even though I really hate what he did to my girl I know that its for the best, Josh was such an as****e and he always made her feel insecure about herself so in a way I'm glad this relationship is over. At least now my girl has a chance to find someone better and if I have anything to say about it this time it will be someone who actually deserves her.  "You know Josh was an asshole Thandi and you really should be wasting your tears on a lowlife such as him" I say "I know that now!" Thandi cries out "But I really loved him, you remember how nice he was when we started going out, always sending me flowers and sweet notes, it was so romantic" she wails "I know babe he really did do all those nice things for the first few weeks. I think we should focus on how you are going to get over him" I say and Thandi just stares at me for a second before she breaks down crying again As I watch my best friend cry I notice that she is really feel back about herself right now so I really need to protect her from making the same mistake she made after Matt broke her heart a year ago which was jump into the arms of an i***t like Josh and falling for his lying ass. I need to build my girl up again before she has a chance to fall for another guy, I need to help her fall for herself.  As I takes some time to think about how to get operation 'Thandi love Thandi' going, I listen to her tell me again about how Josh didn't even care when she confronted him on cheating on her.  As I think about an idea hits me, Thandi is always trying to get me to date and what ends up happening is her finding another boyfriend so this time I could take a bit of a proactive role and get her to focus on herself for sometime.  I look as her and say "You know maybe we should go on a spiritual journey together babe, that way when we are done we can start looking for the right guys for our best selves. How does that sound?" She looks at me for a few minutes saying nothing and I just give her the time she needs saying nothing, after like 10 minutes she asks me "what do you have in mind for a spiritual journey?"  "Well I was thinking we could take the time to figure it out together. But I have a few rules I would like to propose. 1. No man while on this journey. 2. No chickening out before we achieve the goals we set out at the beginning." I say "What do you think?"  "Okay I think I can live with that. I don't I want any man right now anyway!" She says "Pinky swear?" I ask, and she nods and we swear on it.