“Romantic”… ???

Facebook Quiz Results returned that I was among the “romantic” group of people in high school.  this reminded me so much of the character called Pepé in Warner Brothers’ cartoons.

Pepé embodies the hopelessly romantic type of personality who would readily (and blindly) die for his love.  He is a French Skunk who wanders around the streets of Paris in springtime.  Poor Penelope accidentally gets a white stripe on her back making Pepé gawk look her way each time.

He has been famous for his sure phail fire pick up lines that seems to stick, making one identify the skunk in whosoever is using that lame-o line or any tag line used in an almost the same concept for that matter…

True enough, when it comes to being horribly romantic, there is no one that could ever hold a candle to Pepé…  Even after he found out that Penelope is actually a cat.

In the game of love, they say that one must accept the person wholly without hesitation.  Take the person for who or what they are and grow with them.  We die each day to be reborn as a better person with our loved ones…  Hence, according to the Skunk..  “Vive, l’amour, we die togezarr!”

Whether you admit it or not, there is always a part of us who wishes to be showered with attention, to be seen as the most important person in the world and to be treated like a princess.  However, another part of us would always rationalize things and do what is “proper” for the moment and the person involved.

“You know, one of ze mysteriez of my life iz, why a woman run away when all she really wish iz to be captured.”

The fear of falling and finding out later on that the other person does not even have any plans to catch you hurts so bad that could render you not being able to recover for a long time after your butt has actually kissed the stupid floor.  It takes a while before it stops hurting, before you can stand up and actually get going.

“Why iz eet when a man iz captured by a woman, all ‘ee wish to do iz get away?”

I honestly ask the same thing.  Maybe, just maybe, the person does not love the other enough to find a reason to stay.

Guys complain about girls playing games and girls complain about guys being oblivious to what they need.  When relationships fail, both parties are at fault… communication crumbled and they forgot that it takes both of them to keep things growing.  They just stopped…

There are indeed a lot of challenges in trying to make things work.  It is a matter of knowing which risks to take and if both parties are willing to take the same risks.  Sometimes, because of the differences, we fail to see the similarities and from Mr. Romance himself, a final quote…

“A colleague of mine once noted, zere is very little difference between men and women. But, VIVE LE DIFFERENCE!!”