chick flicks

I know what you're thinking right now, "Jared, your obsessed", but lately I've been thinking a lot about chick flicks and for me this is a new spin. I guess it all starts with the question, 'why?'. Why do I watch these movies that aren't that interesting, let's be honest chick flicks basically all have the exact same plot with a twist here or there. So I can't be watching these for the entertainment, no, I watch these movies because they are so many things that I wish i had. I guess a lot of it is all based around their portrayal of "True Love". I'm not going to lie about it most of the time I end up on the verge of tears when I finish these movies and it's not for the award winning actors. It's the character in the movie that is will to sacrifice for the other, it is the guy that won't let anything stop him from being with her. It's the courage that it takes to run back to them, look them in the eye, and say I'm sorry, I love you. Then I stop and I think why is that not what life is really like? I know how lame I sound, but seriously why can't we have that life? I'll use me as an example, why can't I have that? well I could, if I wasn't such a chicken sometimes. If you've ever seen a chick flick you know there is the initial meeting, then there is the relationship building, and then the conflict, then a resolution, and if it doesn't line up like that you aren't really watching a chick flick at all and the jokes on you. But don't worry because as I look at this plot, I realize that I break the chick flick flow in every relationship I've been in. I can't really say I love the initial meeting, because I don't really remember it :), but I can say that I really enjoy learning the finer details of people and getting the opportunity to get a glimpse of someone's heart. But I never really reach the conflict. Anytime things feel like around the corner there is trouble I'm out. Because I'm not in a chick flick and the problems around my corner are worse than anything that any chick flick could come up with, and my partner isn't going to be the same as a chick flick partner would and so there is absolutely no way that my problems could ever be handled in the real world. But now that I look at it over and over I have stopped acting part way through the flick. I would describe it as if I'm an actor and my partner is the actress and God would be the director, and it is kind of like I just run off the set because I haven't read the resolution yet and so I think that it is going to end at the conflict and I'm going to be left feeling poopy. Which is funny because in the end I create a conflict that hurts worse than any that the script has written out for me. I guess I am really rambling, but my main point is this, we are designed to live the chick flick, we are created to fight the fight, to grow a pair and show them how much we love them, to never let a moment pass where they don't know how much we care. Our lives are chick flicks, and it's time to decide which character you want to be. and right now you can have to hero because I'm feeling like a big coward.