
I think books can ruin lives- to an extent anyway.
A perfect example of this is Madame Bourvay (exellent book!).
The book (as far as I've read) is about a young beautiful woman married to a dull suitor who she doesn't love. The book talks of her obsession with love poems, love books and fine things. I think it is her need for passion and class that leads her into an affair with Rodolphe.
"She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true. She was full of a delicious sense of vengeance. How she had suffered! But now her hour of triumph had come; and love, so long repressed was gushing forth in joyful effervescence. She savored it without remorse, without anxiety, without distress."- Madame Bourvary
Because of her love for romance, because of her need for pretty words she was susceptible to being manipulated by a man who only wanted sex. When he breaks her heart by not running away with her, she is left alone again with her sorrows and gets seriously ill. All she really wanted was to become a heroine from her favourite novel.
It's the same with all romance novels. There's this little book you might have heard about. It's called Twilight. ...
Young girls, Young women and strange mothers trying to be cool have become obsessed with this series
What do they like about it? The action?
HECK NO!
They like the fact a plain Bella Swan can score a wonderfully rich, hansome, chivalrous, strong and devoted (edging on stalkerish) man.
Well I think that must be why because honestly there is nothing good about Stephanie Myers writing style...
Anyway my point is, when girl or boys fill their heads with passionate romances that you 'just know straight away are the one'.They will expect it from the person they date or marry. And they will fall madly in 'love' with the first guy/ girl who looks their way and calls them gross pet names like: my love, smexy, babe, gawjuss ect.
Not only gross people fall into the trap of liking/loving the idea of someone. I have and I completely regret dating a certain male (*shoots self*) because I thought he was everything I wanted.
he made me blush
he made me smile
he made me giggle
he probably would have wrote me a poem if I asked.
But when I finally spent time with him again I realised that he didn't measure up to the image I created in my head. The person I liked, wasn't him, it was just a figment of my imagination.
I know ALOT of girls who have done the same, and are still doing the same.
"He says sweet things to me, like from movies and books therefore we are in love". But the minute she gets bored of him or he runs out of corny things to say they are over within minutes.
There is nothing wrong with romantic gestures or words but there is something wrong if they aren't real. If you have gotten you idea of love from one of the following you are not living in reality:
1. Books
2. Movies
3. Peers
4. those cheesy fwd emails
5. Poems
6. Only Emotions
Love isn't the way he looks at you. Love can't be faked but words, cute gestures and kisses can be. You can be even lying to yourself this very minute, you think you love someone but deep down
you are merely in love with love.
this rant is aimed directly at a certain person who will probably never read this or will agree with it because they think they are in love and are different.
-Brooklyn