i've been thinking a lot about love and whatnot today for some reason. has anyone noticed that the theme of most love movies (chick flicks, mostly), goes like this.....fall in love! oh no...don't fall in love because it hurts and it sucks and its hard....and then....aaawwww, everything is okay because we're in L.O.V.E. which generally annoys me because this is not how real life works, and sometimes the person you want to be with doesn't want to be with you and someone you don't want to be with does want to be with you, or sometimes you want to be with each other, but there's just no way it could work, or maybe you want to be with each other but the timing is off, or...blablabla! life is not a chick flick. obviously. and this is okay. its just that we live in this culture that promotes that these movies are reality, so when you're not in a perfect relationship with an abercrombie model and you don't wake up looking like you've just been airbrushed, you feel like there's something wrong with you! well, there is not. the fact is that you are just a real person...not living in a movie.
the good news is that there are real love stories. people do fall in love, and live happily ever after. we should not give up hope, just because we aren't a 16 year old disney princess with long flowing hair and a 12 inch waist being kissed by prince charming while forest animals sweep the floors and do the dishes. this is the real world, but maybe there can be unrealistically happy endings here too. gosh i hope so.
