Another Cinderella Story

        People say you can't live without love. Personally, I think oxygen is more important. I think people in today's age are actually entirely  misguided about what the hell love actually is. Or what a relationship is, for that matter. Maybe it's because we spend hours everyday watching "reality" TV shows like The Real Housewives and Keeping up with the Kardashians. Or maybe it's because when someone we know actually gets in a relationship we have to deal with the irritation as they put up millions of pictures and posts and statuses about how goddamn great their whole love life is going, and how lucky they are to have so-and-so in their life and blah blah. Hearts and smiley faces. Happiness and infatuation. And then, two weeks later, we have to deal with that same somebody sobbing on our shoulders and consuming ungodly amounts of Ben & Jerry's while blubbering about their failed relationship. 

I've always wondered how the relationships of our grandparents' generation seem to be so much more enriching and successful than the whirlwind romances (if you can even call it that) of today's youth. It's so gratifying to hear about those couples that just celebrated their 50th anniversary, or are awaiting the birth of their second grandson. How did they make it work? Why were they able to stay together so long? A reporter once asked a couple how they were able to stay together for 65 years, to which the woman replied "we were born in a time when if something was broken we'd fix it… not throw it away". Not only that, but back in older days, there wasn't any media to look to for examples on how to live your life, no Vogue or Seventeen to read for advice on relationships. 

It's almost worrisome seeing some relationships that seem to be created for the sole intent of adding data to Google Images. It makes you wonder if this couple ever talks, or if the basis of their "relationship" is just having an iPhone camera snapping away at all times. Do they even know each other at all? I don't really think people nowadays understand that whole concept. The idea that maybe there's more to a relationship than just broadcasting it all over Facebook. That if they put down their cameras and logged off of their social media, they could maybe actually get to fucking know each another. I really just think that if everyone just stopped trying to make their relationship picture-perfect they'd actually have a chance at making a relationship work. Your life isn't going to be this flawless tale of love. Stop trying to create another Cinderella story, and try just being yourself for a change. 

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