Love (act)ually

I've grown up with the movies. They have inspired my living. They have as a matter of fact been the primary source of my education. Sex ed would be a lot more complicated without the movies. Karate kid taught me self defense. Home Alone taught me to shave. Die hard thought me to swear. I learned history from Gladiator, Science from Back to the Future and math from a beautiful mind. But at this moment I am starting to regret it. Because the movies taught me about Love- and romance it seems is a lie.

Kate Winslet- Sam Mendes
Sandra Bullock- Jesse James
Reese Witherspoon- Jake Gyllenhaal
Kristen Stewert- Michael Angarano
Susan Sarandon- Tim Robbins

These are just some of the couples from the film world who have broken up over the past 12 months. What I am saying is this, if the woman who ran back to a sinking ship to try and save the man she loves can't seem to make a relationship work in real life, what are my chances- to make matters worse I'm not very picturgenic if you want to draw me naked- at least Kate had that going for her.

Sandra bullock found love on a bus that couldn't slow down, got a comatose guy and his brother to fall in love with her. She had a romance with her relationship phobic boss in 2 weeks notice and with her assistant in the Proposal but guess what- shes getting a divorce. If she can't have someone be into her what are my chances. It's Bollocks.

Jake Gyllenhaals gay romance ended with heart and back break and but even the gay cowboy romantic couldn't keep his romance going with a woman who went to law school to be with her boy-friend. I mean lets face it these two are committed but for some reason even they couldn't stay committed to each other.

Kristen Stewert- this woman stayed with the guy she loved even after she found out he was a 100 year old vampire, She stayed with him after she found out he glittered in the sun, she stayed with him even though he looked like Robert Pattison. She stayed with him even after a mostly topless six-packed warewolf tried to seduce he-this woman was ready to put up with all this- Imean clearly she haslow standards and expectations but even her standards of love could not be reached. If she can't do it, how can I. I actually want a girl who doesn't randomly climb trees.


These people have actual practice making love work but I don't. If they don't have happy endings how can I? I have for my entire life searched for an happy ending and I have come to realize there are no such thing as an happy ending for one good reason. There are no endings. Things go on, life goes on and love goes on. They don't end like in the movies. They just don't end- there's happy and there's unhappy but there is no ending.

So I'm starting to think that the movies have instigated in me a kind of longing for romance that doesn't exist in the long run but then again it seems to exist in me. So it has to be real because otherwise it means I am not real.

I suppose at the end the truth is life is larger than the movies and I am larger than life.