A shudder inducing account of how movies can actually be right sometimes...

It's funny how, when you're watching the various romantic comedies that pop up in theatres nowadays, you're probably thinking to yourself, "This is such BS. Things like this never really happen." I know I was. And yet, increasingly I'm finding that my life, and sometimes the lives of people around me, is mirroring a disgustingly sweet romantic film.

It's actually really sad how my situation is panning out right now because I can think of several books and/or movies that this can parallel to, and the fate of my character is not looking good. So let's outline the plot:

Girl-A is really good friends, maybe even best friends, with a boy, whom she also happens to like as more than friends. Said boy confides in Girl-A that he happens to like another girl. Lets call her Girl-B. Girl-A and Girl-B are friends though not really that close. Yet by chance, Girl-A finds out that Girl-B returns the boy's feelings. Because Girl-A values the boy's happiness above her own feelings, she lets him know this. Girl-B and the boy are now trying to feel out how a relationship would play out between them, and wish to keep their feelings secret for now. The boy tells Girl-A that if things go well, they will officially become..."a couple."

So I'm guessing you can figure out that I am "A" in this picture. Again let me reiterate that the fact that my love life has come to this kind of makes me want to laugh and kind of makes me want to sit on my couch with a tub of ice cream.

Don't get me wrong: I'm no Bella Swan. That is to say, I won't mope around and live an empty life and become the epitome of teenage angst just because someone I might love doesn't reciprocate. It will just make me sad for a little while.

Now let me return to the topic at hand and ask, are there many movies that come to mind where there is this kind of love triangle? The one that keeps popping into my head is "My Best Friend's Wedding." Its not quite the same situation, but it's similar enough. And for the main character, Julia Roberts (me in this case), the ending didn't go quite so well, at least in terms of her love life.

But I won't dwell on this. As people often say, "There are plenty of other fish in the sea." My only regret is that this one isn't mine. I just thought I'd share the advice that, next time you are laughing at the impossibility of a Romantic film, don't. It will come back and bite you in the ass. God has an ironic sense of humor.