Romance: As Seen on T.V.

Chuck Kolsterman talked about romance is his article, This is Emo. But not just regular romance, the kind that people base their real life romances off of. I'm talking about our ideas of romance and love that we get from the books we read and the shows and movies we watch. He said that people want the kind of love that fictional characters have, so they base their real life love off of that and almost always come out disappointed. He himself said that he could never satisfy any woman and vise versa, because they both have an image of what love and romance is supposed to be that could never be real. Klosterman even said that he wants a marriage like the Huxtable's had. But those sort of thoughts are unfair to everyone, because no one can ever be that happy or that in love.

I, myself, have fallen pray to the happy love that I see on t.v. or in movies. My favorite kind is sort of like Disney princesses, but not at the same time because I don't always have the idea of those princesses in my head. I can't really explain where I personally get my misguided ideas about love from, but I see it all over the place. He gets the girl, she gets the boy, she takes him back, he falls for her, she falls for him, they are finally together after a hard struggle, she changes him for the better and they walk off hand-in-hand; either way you slice it, it's all lovey dovey unrealistic ideas that are drilled into our head. Klosterman gets very upset with this idea and blames Coldplay and John Cusack  for his "the one that got away" moment. I personally think he's just a little bit bitter about the subject, and should realize that everyone is going to feel this way and think this way. It's been drilled into everyone's heads and as long as they can accept that real true love is messy and hard and almost impossible, I think he (Klosterman) and the rest of the world can get along just fine.

That being said, I believe that I personally love the relationship that Corey Matthews and Topanga Lawrence. I grew up with their love and while I know it's unlikely that I'll ever find anything like what they had, though they were pretty realistic, I would still like to try. I mean, I'll go in knowing that it will be work, but I think anyone can find true love.....a girl can dream, can't she?!