You Never Know Until You Let Go

I don’t want to know so I’m not letting go.

He can be annoying, hard-headed, loud, weird, and sometimes, ironically, too sensible. He doesn’t give me flowers every time we see each other, nor does he randomly buys me chocolate. Nope, he doesn’t open the door for me, and he doesn’t take off his jacket and lay it in a puddle so I can cross without getting my shoes wet. He doesn’t always holds my shopping bags, and no he does not tell me how wonderful I look each time we meet.

No.

And I don’t know if we’d still be with each other if he does all the things mentioned above.

The thing is, girls, those things are too good to be true. They only happen in movies, and novels. In both cases, things are bound to go wrong in the storyline, one way or another. And did you ever think of why do the writers get paid so much? It’s either because they are smart enough to think of ‘romantic gestures’ as stated above, or they are cool enough to get away with cliches. Either way, it doesn’t really happen in real life.

Even if it does, it isn’t true.
True here means in the sense of originality, not honesty. Yes, your boyfriend can be honest to his heart if he brings you chocolate every day. But he isn’t being true in a sense of doing something original.

It’s cliche, girls.

Well, we can dream. And dreams aren’t bad at all. We so can dream Johnny Depp proposing to us on a cruise ship while being shirtless (oh dayum). We can. But that’s fiction for you.

Do not complain if he doesn’t do all of these cliches. Because, to me, that’s his natural self. Maybe he has his own way of telling you he loves you without copying something from the movies.

Maybe something like knowing that you don’t like cucumbers and tomatoes thus he eats them from your sandwich before giving it to you. Or maybe the way he humours you by winking at you knowing you’ll giggle like a little girl even though you’ve been with him for quite some time. Or the way he entertains you by using chop sticks even though baby, you’re better off with forks. Or simple things like maybe, maybe, still wanting to see you even if he had a rough day, and still apologized for being late even if it’s not his fault.

That’s his own way of being your very own proposing shirtless Johnny Depp.
And  you’re smart enough to realize that you mean to him that much.

So girls, don’t complain. Just don’t.

Just love him.

Okay?