
What are romantic comedies to the female mind? You see, I can never decide. Romantic comedies can be anything, from the way I picture my future, to a fantastical dream not worth believing in, or even a way some people get to live only if they are really really good. In my opinion, like Rosie O'Donnell said in the romantic classic
Sleepless In Seattle "[Women] don't want to be in love, [they] want to be in love in a movie." How true is this? I mean think about it, how often is it really, that people fall in love like in say, for example, Love Actually, or Notting Hill? Where Colin Firth learns to speak Portuguese so that he can communicate how much he loves you, or where Hugh Grant rings hundreds of doorbells just to find one girl. Let's face it, that is what we all want. We don't want the boring hum drum till death or divorce do us part marriages. Even the ones that are steadfast and strong, like my parents, for example. My parents love each other, but do they romance each other? have afternoon sex on the kitchen table? go on hot air balloon rides over the countryside? Absolutely... not. They wake up and deal with life. My mom as a grumpy schoolteacher, and my dad as a shy and disclosed bankruptcy attorney. Not exactly my idea of passionate, romantic, blissful, movie love. I'm sure this is just a phase that I will grow out of eventually. I mean someday I'll meet someone who goes to the same college as me... taking a boring major for a boring career choice who is universally handsome and has the same views as me... like Walter! In Sleepless In Seattle. I am Meg Ryan. I'm stuck in a rut just hoping for a magical sign to appear in front of me. I'm just hoping that someday when I am (hopefully) a happy-go-lucky, sweet, and dependable pre-school teacher; that somehow, a handsome exciting passionate wonderful man who just so happens to be my soul mate, will come and sweep me off my feet into a cloud of bliss and everlasting happiness. Because, let's face it. I want to be in love in a movie.
Here's to hoping that it actually happens.
Until then... one can only dream. :)
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