The last couple of weeks I've had the chance to reread "Dear John" and rewatch the Korean TV show "Boys Before Flowers" (that a friend of mine got me into freshman year...) My family gets up insanely early to do their CrossFit training at like 5:15am and so they go to sleep pretty early. Allows me to have a few hours to myself every night. Just what I've needed.
So there I was, sitting on my bed late one night with tears rolling down my face. Why oh why can't Savannah marry both John and Tim? Why can't Jandi have both Jihu and Junpyo? Why do so many of the current books and movies have the girl choosing between her soul mate and her love? Like she chose the guy that was there for her when she needed it and she couldn't live her life waiting for the first guy to come back--and when he does, she realizes that her life would have been so much different if she'd married him instead of the guy she did? Or like she's tried to forget him, tried to move on, and even though the soul mate has become her best friend, she still can't get her first love out of her head?
These stories are sad... and why are they bestsellers or one of those "go to movies" when you have a girls' night... we're hopeless romantics, I guess.
Maybe we see ourselves in their stories... and we hope that one day we won't have to choose between the best friend/soul mate and our first love... maybe they'll end up being the same guy.
So there I was, sitting on my bed late one night with tears rolling down my face. Why oh why can't Savannah marry both John and Tim? Why can't Jandi have both Jihu and Junpyo? Why do so many of the current books and movies have the girl choosing between her soul mate and her love? Like she chose the guy that was there for her when she needed it and she couldn't live her life waiting for the first guy to come back--and when he does, she realizes that her life would have been so much different if she'd married him instead of the guy she did? Or like she's tried to forget him, tried to move on, and even though the soul mate has become her best friend, she still can't get her first love out of her head?
These stories are sad... and why are they bestsellers or one of those "go to movies" when you have a girls' night... we're hopeless romantics, I guess.
Maybe we see ourselves in their stories... and we hope that one day we won't have to choose between the best friend/soul mate and our first love... maybe they'll end up being the same guy.
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