Maybe it's my age or some hormonal urgency that I haven't quite come to grips with yet, but am I turning into a cynical romantic? I know that is a contradiction within itself but bare with me for a little bit. The more I watch movies these days I sit and think to myself, "Why can't my life be like a movie, where everything is scripted to lead to some big climax that everyone (mostly me) is waiting to see?". I believe that most movies are scripted from actual life in some fashion so it's a completely plausible idea. Too bad some of our scripts have chapters that got jumbled up, shifted around and, I believe at times, all together fogotten!
So, how do you become a cyncial romantic? First, you must believe that somewhere inside of you that you have all the sentimental, amorous affection running through your veins like a dormant disease just waiting for the right person to come along for it to be activated. Second, you must idly sit by and wait for this right person to introduce himself/herself into your life for the sole purpose of being your mushy-madness pin cushion. Thirdly, you must completely bare your soul to this pin cushion which, I must warn you, will be a dire expression of a non-existent reciprocation of madening adoration. Lastly (and I believe the most important factor in becoming a cynical romantic), when picking yourself up off that proverbial floor because the delusional enchantment of passion has ended, you must erect the walls of cynicism around your heart. This means that you can believe all the movies and stories about finding love and living the Cinderella life (life after the evil step-mother and all) but you disavow that this could ever happen for you. You can believe you are worthy of the momentous love story that captures the hearts of all little girls throughout time but you do not bite into the bullshit of that great story being your story. Once you accept this to be a fact you will have completed your transformation from the lost broken hearted looking for love to the ever sarcastic cynical romantic that continues to live in the realm of an idea instead of reality.
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