And, you know, if it doesn't apply and you haven't got that US security guarantee, which is so important to NATO, then it does beg questions about NATO's strength in the short term.

'I beg your pardon, but I don't quite understand.'

For the love-scared among us, we are constantly at work taking careful steps to ensure that any relationship we are in will flounder. We pick partners with an element of built-in obsolescence about them, some reason why in the end a relationship with them isn't going to be able to work out, people who just happen to be living on another continent or who are married to someone else or are impossibly distant to us in age. We beg for love from people who, as we know in our unconscious, are guaranteed not to want or be able to give it to us. We complain repeatedly that people we are involved with don't love us properly.

The previous month, they'd traveled to DC by private jet and, well, the media didn't love the optics of CEOs burning tens of thousands of dollars of jet fuel in order to beg for a bailout.

Grant me mercy, I beg of you!

Beg your pardon?

I can't do any more than just ask you, to beg you just to keep it together.

I beg your pardon. Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you... alone.

So we have these begging hooks inside of our car to allow customers to beg their groceries as they go, so that after they're done paying, they could just grab their bags and walk out of the store.

Lastly, break the wise rules. Of course you should never call them, naturally you shouldn't beg them to return, it's entirely necessary to block their number. But there are grave dangers in trying to be so grown up one never allows oneself to mature. There are certain blows to the ego from which one can only ever recover through unguarded humiliation. Make yourself abject and silly. Try everything and watch it fail. Observe yourself descending into a mockery of your former coherent self. Sink as deep as the pain commands. Live the impossibility, don't just intellectually assume it and then suffer from your emotions never following suit. Properly experience where things can't be until the lesson sinks in authentically rather than logically. Tie yourself back to health. No one can make you wise one moment ahead of time or in your place. The best way to recover sanity is to allow madness to have its full, unfettered, horrific, necessary run.