I don’t usually watch chick flicks. I’m an action adventure, suspense thriller, sci-fi, or even drama (coach carter, remember the titans) type of guy. Those are what I watch. Independence Day, Armageddon, The Matrix, Die Hard, Indiana Jones, Batman, Sixth Sense, Gladiator, Saw, James Bond, Oceans Eleven, Bourne movies, Pirates of the Caribbean… You get the idea right?
But it seems like the few times I have met someone and I really start to fall for them I watch a chick-flick with them early in the relationship, and I actually enjoy it. With my ex-wife it was Titanic. Say what you want.. that’s a chick flick. But even though Leonardo Dicaprio is a bad actor and watching him made me sick, the rest of the movie was actually pretty darn good. In a way I always felt that was ‘our movie’. How fitting the end of that movie.. Guy freezing to death- while the girl sleeps.
Which brings me to the best ‘chick flick’ I have ever seen. The Notebook. I was talked into watching this movie by the girl that I consider my last girlfriend. I’m sure she doesn’t even put a title like that on me, because I was just the guy she used to get the guy she really wanted to confess his love to her. But even though I was tricked by her.. It WAS real for me.
The point is, this is an excellent movie. If you haven’t seen it, you need to go watch it tonight. BUT… the movie has basically been ruined for me. I watched it with her. So if I watch it again, I will think of her. I will think of how bad you get burned when you trust someone. I will think of how there are people who can make you believe they care about you when all they plan on doing is using you.
Yes, I know that life isn’t fair, trust me.. I know. But with everything that happened between her and I, with all that I learned about and knowing how I meant nothing and I was just a pawn… the thing that I will never forgive her for, is ruining The Notebook for me. It’s not fair.
You could have left it for someone who actually cared.
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