I can't solve your problems.

[This is going to be a thinly-veiled, completely selfish rant.]

Two of my friends just started dating.

I have been waiting for them to date for months.

They're pretty great together.

Several weeks ago, the guy dated another friend of mine.

He broke up with her, and I've heard her side of the story several times.

She never got over him.

She came to my room about an hour ago, upset that the guy started dating someone else.

She was hurt, and I understand that.

But I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

For the past couple of weeks, I have invested hours in this girl's life.

I have listened to her complaints of heartache.

But, quite frankly, I'm sick of it.

She is still in love with the boyfriend who broke up with her last fall.

She wouldn't admit it, but it's far too obvious.

Almost every conversation we have ends up being about her.
I can start telling a story about my life, and it always comes around to her love life.

I prefaced this by saying that I was going to be selfish, so I don't care how this sounds:

I just want to talk about me sometimes, maybe for like, two minutes.

Granted, she did listen to me tell two stories tonight, without interjecting.

I appreciated that.

But she seemed bored, like she didn't want to be listening.

And they were very good stories.

I climbed through a window at a professor's house yesterday.

(We had permission to be there, but the key didn't work.

And we really needed to get stuff from his basement.)

I love this girl like a sister.

I care about her.

But I don't want to listen to her talk about this anymore.

I've heard it and I understand and I've tried to empathize.

But because I've never been through it before, she won't listen to me when I tell her she needs to let it go.

She's just sick of being hurt and lied to.

"People will let you down," I tell her.

She doesn't get that I have been let down.

Just because I haven't had my heart broken in the way that she has, I'm not completely ignorant.

I don't know what she expects me to do for her.

I can't take all of her problems, in addition to my own.

God alone can fully understand, and I am clearly not God.

That's how I'm feeling right now: frustrated, annoyed, selfish, and helpless.