Well since yesterday was Valentine's Day I thought it fitting to discuss the topic of love and romance and how movies and other media make us strive to find something that might not exist. Happily Ever After..who didn't grow up hearing that in so many childhood stories, the poor helpless princess saved by the dashing prince or the 20 dollar hooker made into the millionaires wife. We are repeatedly told that love IS a fairytale and that it is perfect and that there is your perfect someone out there. But I thought NOBODY was perfect? If we all live to find that perfect partner and perfect love than most of us would end up alone and truely disappointed what we need to remember is that this isn't the movies and when you do fall in love with someone they won't always be your perfect prince or your princess in need of rescue, we are all full of bad habits and we are all human and nobody is perfect...time to accept that even love is full of imperfections and doesn't always live happily ever after.
It's a lot like beauty. They always want people compared to something unrealistic so they'll keep buying stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe phrase "life isn't the movies" is such a simple one, and yet I think a lot of people really resist that idea deep down. The fantasy of perfect romance is very powerful. Giving it up is a really hard pill for people to swallow.
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