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Are We All Fools?

Are We All Fools?


I am a hopeless romantic. I have no shame in saying I love rom-coms and I’ll watch Sleepless in Seattle with the same zest as I watch the Hunger Games series. I don’t care how formulaic it is but I want the guy to get the girl. I want Mr. Darcy to marry Miss. Bennett. Sure it is Hollywood and maybe it is not realistic, but I don’t give a damn.


Why? Because I think it is ok to give believe in love. So it kills me when I hear about one more relationship that is done for, not even enough life to be considered part of the living dead. He cheated, she cheated, maybe there was drinking, lying, gambling, it doesn’t matter...the relationship is over.


I get that not every relationship will last, and I can’t say I was all that surprised when some couples don’t make it. Inevitable is what I thought when Thor’s brother called it quits with the woman who showed me what it meant to ‘twerk’. But if Kate and WIll don’t last, I may lose all hope for true love.


When I heard that my two good friends broke up again, I wasn’t surprised. They’d been off and on again for so many years, that another break up was just what I expected. But they are regular people. True love that lasts the epitome of ‘having it all’ and is the key to happy healthy life. If celebrities in all their fabulousness can’t make it work, maybe there is a reason hopeless and romantic are associated together.


I certainly feel the fool when I’m surprised that one more couple we all thought would prove us wrong cease to exist. The most talked about candidate for president has been married three times and sex scandals in politics hardly shock us anymore. But Ben and Jen, Miranda and Blake, Amy and Will, Gwen and Gavin...these are the couples we all believed in.


Yet, maybe I am not a hopeless romantic. I am just a romantic, because something about Blake and Gwen makes me think I am not such a fool after all for believing in happily ever after.

Are We All Fools?
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