I'm so anti.....

As I watched CC and Hillary write letters to each other from the time they were 11 years old well into adulthood,I asked myself where did that age of communication go? As I sat in my room watching “Beaches” while the other half of the whole that makes up my long distance relationship got ready to depart from the confines of my room, I asked that question out loud. His response gave of that of an “oh please tone.” When I came back with “it takes about the same energy to tweet” I was met with the resistance I’ve come to expect with any conversation we have that references the overuse of twitter as a communication tool. As the conversation drew on and topic started to clearly annoy him, some words came out his mouth that hit me with somewhat like a slap in the face and while I can’t remember them verbatim it was somewhat along the lines of “y’all need to lose this idea of (can’t remember the in-between words) romanticism. There was a brief silence and an awkward pause before I decided to save face and reply with a letter writing story and the statement, “I would have liked to live in the 1940s. To live and love in the 1940s.” to with he replied “that makes sense.” While the hush in the room checked in for a longer stay, I internalized what those words made me feel. If I could compare into anything it would be the to SBG’s (one of my favorite writes/bloggers) post about her then boyfriend and a negative reaction he had to a song she liked being a preface to her breakup. I’m certainly not saying that’s the road I’m going down but just like in that post, a man made a statement that stung and and swelled up like a mosquito bite on an 85 degree day in July. They stung in a place that had been all to familiar to me. A place I’ve been where I’ve asked myself “have the times really changed or am I being shortchanged? Is courting dead or am I just a casualty of wavering expectations of courting? Then I’m brought back down to reality at which point the age old question resurfaces, “am just a victim of a long distance relationship?” A relationship society, space, and time have doomed to fail. This all started with a letter being written on screen and while I’m not sure what any of this means, but as Beaches continues to be my current backdrop I ask myself is this the story or the glory of love?