Lehman Brothers Metaphor - "Breaking up is just like when the funds you invested goes bankrupt, you can get nothing from your investment coz the bank/relationship no longer exits."
I was extremely amazed that how similar these two investments are -- investing in a fund and investing in a relationship. When a relationship fails, it's like a bank going bankrupt. You lost all the valuables you gave in and your faith, leaving you a broken heart. Others can only shows sympathy but can't get you out of your misery, not even the government. All kinds of everything reminds you of what the investment seemed to promised to return. Passing by a restaurant you two used to patronized, drinking the cocktail you used to tease other with, looking at the pictures you took...everything used to bring a smile on your face now is haunting you days and nights. The sweet moment you shared popping up in your mind is simply like a stab in your heart.
In monetary investment, you lost your money or your faith to the system. In a relationship, however, you invested much more, your love, your time, your money and of course your heart. That's why the damage of a broken relationship is beyond measurement. And there's no ROI in a relationship.
Another similarity of relationship and investment failure is that people's sympathy fades away. You might be very angry when you first saw the raging victims of Leman Bro protesting on TV but when the news is repeating day after day, your anger or sympathy is becoming milder and milder till the day you simply find the news annoying. Same story for breakups, women are very self conscious about their grieving behavior.
No matter if it's an investment in a fund/stock/equality or a relationship, when it goes bad, there's no one but You, and only you can pick yourself up and get your life back to track. Salute to all the survivors of the econmoic tsunami and traumatic breakups!
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