And she was the first beautiful thing I ever got stuck on.
How can it be a mistake that I don’t have to wash my hands after I touch her?
Now, I just think about who else is kissing her. I can’t breathe because he only kisses her once—he doesn’t care if it’s perfect!
I watched this video three times and I want to tell my mom and my boyfriend and my friends about this video and force them to watch it and stare at them while they watch it but I won't because I don't know if they'll see the beauty in this that I do and that will ruin it for me.
And yet some of the youtube comments are like this. "I see all the females in the comments get so gooey about how "romantic" this is, to know how much destruction they leave behind when they dump someone."
Excuse you. You want romance? Go watch Letters to Juliet twice in three days like I did last week. This is not romantic. This is someone taking the jagged edges of a heartbreak and turning it into something poetic, and that's what makes it beautiful, the capability to take something that breaks your heart and make it something that leaves an impact on others. That does not make it romantic. Romance is romantic, and this is not romance. This is someone trying to take an ugly, hideous, complicated thing, and simplify it into the sentences that made people gasp and cry and ache along with him.
Maybe you don't see the beauty in it that I see, that millions of people, male and female, have seen via the internet. That's not my problem. He accomplished one of the hardest things to do when he wrote that - subtlety. It's always been my biggest problem in writing - it's really hard when you want to convey a certain amount of emotion not to leave it up to the reader to travel down that path. But he did! Maybe that's why some people just didn't feel it the way others did. Because he left it up to us. He let go of the insecurity of not being heard the way he wanted and spoke anyway, and he left it up to us, and damn, it was so beautiful.
That man could have just said, "I met a girl who made my OCD not so much of a problem anymore. But he didn't! He siad, "I don't have to wash my hands after I touch her." That man could have just said, "I have an incurable problem, and, for a while, a girl showed me what it was like to be loved anyway. Now, she's gone, and I don't know how to cope with that." But he didn't. He said "I leave the light on."
Basically that video gave me chills and I said I wasn't going to spell it out for anyone but I did anyway because I want to talk about it because it's beautiful.
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