It Could Happen to You

Pick a movie. Any movie. Well, any movie that constitutes one person meeting another person and they fall in love with each other at the perfect time, perfect place, saying the perfect words and living the perfect life happily ever after. Perfect huh? I guess that's why its called a movie. Some romantic fool, living in his or her fairytale land sat in front of the computer one rainy night, with the full moon shining and the stars twinkling above and just decided on a whim to write that wonderful story. I bet the writer is single.

And same shit goes with fairytales. I mean what are we teaching our children. It could be a sense of being hopeful that the world is indeed perfect. But clearly it isn't. Aren't we just setting them up with a whole bunch of pain and suffering since they are expecting some perfect setting as soon as they leave the house and fend for themselves? It's right what Carrie Bradshaw did in the trailer of Sex in the City trailer, when she was reading to the little kid. She wanted the little kid to know that "happily ever after" doesn't really happen everyday. It might. I'll give you that. But not to everyone.

Definitely not to me.

A couple of times, I've heard music playing. I saw amazing fireworks. I even heard the philharmonic orchestra bust out their awesome rendition of one of Mozart's work. But where did it lead to? Nothing. I am still moping around watching cheesy romantic flicks that never fails to make me cry at the end of the movie when they finally share their one magical kiss and say..."you had me at hello!"

Ugh!

Kids, it's not true what you read. The movies are all figment of some lunatic writer's imagination. Julia Roberts won't be coming into your small bookstore one day and fall in love with you. Jerry Maguire isn't real. Proposals made on top of the Empire State Building could mess up your hair and it's just really cold up there in the winter and overly hot and humid in the summer. No one would exert an effort to learn your language so that he can ask your dad for your hand in marriage in your native tongue.

Amidst all these angst. Maybe, just maybe, who knows, it could happen to you.

*sigh*