“Glimpse of Us'' is a song by Joji, that depicts Joji in a perfect relationship, but he can’t help but reminisce about a past relationship with another woman. He acknowledges that his current relationship is one that is flawless and utterly ideal. Despite this, he yearns for a relationship that has long been over. “Glimpse of Us,” describes the aftermath of a relationship and the effects that follows Joji into his next relationship. Joji is in a relationship with someone that he can only describe as “perfect.” He expresses that she’d “take the world off my shoulders if it was ever hard to move,” and “turn the rain to a rainbow when I was living in the blue.” Nevertheless afterwards he asks himself, “Why then if she’s so perfect do I still …show more content…
Not only does he retain his feelings for Sam when she’s in a separate relationship, he still loves her when he’s in a relationship of his own. Charlie enters a relationship with another girl named Mary Elizabeth. Despite the fact that Charlie does not have feelings for Mary Elizabeth, the relationship drags on because he’s too afraid to tell her he doesn’t want to date her. After their first date, Mary Elizabeth asks Charlie if he would like to go out again and Charlie says yes because he “didn't want to do anything wrong” (Chbosky 114). Charlie’s indifference towards Mary Elizabeth only further highlights the stark contrast between the way Charlie perceives Mary Elizabeth and Sam. He poetically declares that “It’s like he (Craig) would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it’s beautiful is because of Sam” (Chbosky 48). Yet when he speaks about Mary Elizabeth he is nowhere near as passionate nor affectionate. The first time Mary Elizabeth and Charlie have sex, afterwards he thinks of Sam and “how Sam said she didn’t like things like that” (Chbosky 127). Charlie, similar to Joji, still longs