It's adorable isn't it? You've sat there through the emotional roller-coaster of a Rom-Com. The leading lady has been through so much. She started off as a single girl, feeling lonely because all her friends are happily in love. She probably has a heart breaking unlucky-in-love background and has excepted that she'll be lonely forever. Then a man comes along. He's usually a beautiful Ryan Reynolds looking guy and she falls in love, he breaks her heart and there's a long, wasted period of time in the film where she's back to being her lonely, single self. At the end the guy comes to his senses and makes a massive show of his love and shouts from the roof tops "WHY DID I EVER LET YOU GO?"
How romantic.
But lets stop and think for a second, because I think I've heard this one before. It's called fiction and no matter how beautiful it sounds coming from Ryan Reynold's mouth, it's just simply not that convenient.
"You don't know what you've got until it's gone" seems to have a catch here in reality. And it's called "gone and lost weight, found a skin matching foundation and invested in a new wardrobe".
But the main question here is: What was wrong with me before? Was it that I was too young; had a few pre-adolescent pimples on my face and hadn't yet discovered frizz-ease shampoo? Because here's a shocker, you weren't that pretty yourself.
I'm still the same load mouth, weird and awkward girl that you dated before. And if none of that bothers you, then the reason we broke up, isn't because "it wasn't the right time" or you were "really bogged down with work" but because I just wasn't pretty enough. And now, because according to you I am, I'll get a text message from you declaring (quietly) "WHY DID I EVER LET YOU GO?"
How romantic.
Really, I mean it, I'm thrilled. It's not like I've moved on, grown up and totally forgot we ever dated. Honestly!
At the end of the day, this is just going to cause an awkward situation, ruin the friendship we built up over time and waste a whole evening, dedicating carefully selected words to letting you down in the nicest possible way after you dumbed me on my ass the first time round.
How romantic...
How romantic.
But lets stop and think for a second, because I think I've heard this one before. It's called fiction and no matter how beautiful it sounds coming from Ryan Reynold's mouth, it's just simply not that convenient.
"You don't know what you've got until it's gone" seems to have a catch here in reality. And it's called "gone and lost weight, found a skin matching foundation and invested in a new wardrobe".
But the main question here is: What was wrong with me before? Was it that I was too young; had a few pre-adolescent pimples on my face and hadn't yet discovered frizz-ease shampoo? Because here's a shocker, you weren't that pretty yourself.
I'm still the same load mouth, weird and awkward girl that you dated before. And if none of that bothers you, then the reason we broke up, isn't because "it wasn't the right time" or you were "really bogged down with work" but because I just wasn't pretty enough. And now, because according to you I am, I'll get a text message from you declaring (quietly) "WHY DID I EVER LET YOU GO?"
How romantic.
Really, I mean it, I'm thrilled. It's not like I've moved on, grown up and totally forgot we ever dated. Honestly!
At the end of the day, this is just going to cause an awkward situation, ruin the friendship we built up over time and waste a whole evening, dedicating carefully selected words to letting you down in the nicest possible way after you dumbed me on my ass the first time round.
How romantic...
