Journal #3 for High Fidelity Ch 10-13

This was definitely a more of a downer than the previous nine chapters, but that’s what happens when you first cheat on your girlfriend, borrow a pretty substantial amount of money with the intent on never giving it back, and you are the reason why she had an abortion. This was all old news but it just makes such an impact on the story that it has to be said more than once. When you look at Rob now, he is just a pathetic person. His true disposition is a 35-year-old man who refuses to let go of the future and solves all his problems by either immersing himself in his music, old music that only helps further the point, or makes a top 5 list about something. To make things even more spectacular is that he goes and sleeps with Marie. Why would he do that? The entire reason why his life is so terrible presently, not that before it was really great to begin with, is because he slept with Marie. So obviously doing the thing that made your life crap would be the right thing to do. Its like a bee trying to escape from a house through a window, only the bee doesn’t understand that no matter how many times he hits the glass, he won’t get out, and that’s what Rob is, a especially stupid bee trying to magically make it through that glass.