Happily Ever After..?

we have seen it all.
the soppy love story, the couple finally getting together with the convenient sunset in the background.

does it really help our misguided notions of love and marriage?
does it help that hollywood is our western cultural diet?

nope it doesn't.



basically, the plot always revolves around a couple who somehow fall in love but can't really get together, and so begins the heart-wrenching sequence. does it just affect the girls? no, even the guys get into it!

perhaps the most noteworthy would be the following film.



classic, tragic romance movie. extremely heart-wrenching. and at the end...when they played coldplay's the scientist...everyone in the cinema started tearing... my god. perfect.

what about korean dramas?
amazing concepts. in fact, they take the tragic romance idea one step further.

[we shall have a couple who cannot be together.
and stretch it out over 36 episodes.
finally at the 36th episode, they can finally be together.
but there's a major twist at the end.
she has cancer! and dies in his arms.]



seriously.

is it any wonder why so many people have misguided notions about how relationships and love really work? no offence but frankly if one hasn't been in a relationship at all, he/she really has much ignorance to conquer.




perhaps you could take the other point of view and say, hey..love is suppose to be pure (hah!), so perhaps ignorance might actually be a good thing.

true...to a certain extent.
because frankly, at the end of the day, you can have all the love in the world with your significant other but the fireworks, lovey-dovey smiles, the gentle whispers and honeymoon period will slowly fade away and fizzle out.

and all that leaves is the core of the relationship.
by staring straight at the core will you then be able to know what really exists between the two of you...and when all those nice feelings just fade away, does love truly exist amongst the two?

or was it just an illusion?