It’s Hollywood, it’s cliche, it’s all but overhyped romantic fantasy. Be it being saved from the dragons to wearing Cinderella’s glass shoes on your wedding day. Yeap. But I really want to know what it’s like.
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Marcella Purnama
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Marcella Purnama is a blogger and author of What I Wish I Had Known: And Other Lessons You Learned in Your Twenties. She is currently obsessed with finding the best recipe for bread rolls and keeping her sixteen plants alive.
This is the best, if not, one of the best movies I’ve watched in 2013. Oh, how I love Star Trek.
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You should be dating someone who respects you. If he doesn’t want to put away his phone during dates, and keeps on replying others’ messages, checking for emails (or worse, Facebook notifications), or getting distracted by his Blackberry’s flashing red light, he isn’t worth your time.
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I don’t wanna grow up just yet. It’s funny, because all I ever wanted as a kid is to grow up. I want to be that woman in her 20s who is successful, independent, kind, and beautiful, with a great sense of humour.
Yes, all I ever wanted is to grow up. To not be treated as a kid. To not be given curfew nor the need to ask for permission every single time I want to go out. To lay on bed for the whole day if I want to and go out the whole night if I choose to.
To be a grown up.
But life doesn’t work that way, does it?
It works on this: “Be careful what you wish for”.
Truth is, I don’t want to grow up just yet.
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There are couples who become Facebook official and there are others who don’t even know how to change their statuses. Me? I’m having the first world problem.
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1. Smelling someone wearing his perfume will trigger your brain to produce unlikely chemicals that will pierce your heart, as if reminding you, he’s not here.
12. Making time is vital, especially with all those time differences and lives of your own. Truth is, if you don’t grow together, you’ll grow apart.
16. To count down the days on when you finally can meet up is one of the happiest things on earth. It gives you hope.
21. Long distance relationship is not for everyone. And it’s hard. It’s harder than a lot of things. But it’s worth it in the end. Because he’s worth it.
15. There’s no getting used to saying goodbyes. Not now, maybe not ever.
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Truthfully, I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be in this stage of relationship. You know, the time when you innocently flirt with each other and tirelessly find excuses to text each other (and not to be seen as overly aggressive and ambitious at the same time).
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Last week, my wonderful age of two-zero turns into the big two-one. And being 21 is the start line of being in the 20s, where most of life major decisions are made.
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We may come from different races, but we are still people, who share our basic needs with each other, each striving to realise dreams of our own. We are all, you know, simply humans.
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Noted, The Fault in Our Stars is one of the best love stories ever written. It’s even so much better than the Titanic. Really.
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