Crazy, Stupid, Love
I was flipping through the channels on tv tonight and I saw that Crazy, Stupid, Love was on HBO. I remember seeing the movie with a friend when it came out and that I really enjoyed it. I missed the first 15 minutes or so but since there was nothing else on I decided to watch it again.
I have to say that besides being one hilariously funny movie, my head is spinning right now with so many thoughts the movie put in there about love, and dating, and relationships. I'm thinking about these things in a general sort of "big picture" way but at the same time I'm thinking specifically about how they relate to me. Rom-Coms don't typically invoke a lot of intellectual thought, certainly not in the way that Hollywood produces them and yet for some reason I can't stop myself from reflecting on what I just watched.
In a general sense I'm thinking about how so common it is for males to objectify women and how society views promiscuous men and women so very differently. And how some people use sex as a tool to accomplish so many different things. On a personal level I'm reflecting on my experiences (or lack thereof) with these things, my expectations, my failures, my fears and anxieties, how happy I am to see the people close to me enjoying all of these things, how sad and empty it makes me feel that I rarely, and in the case of love, never have.
I don't think that I can elaborate coherently any further on any of these topics, at least not at the moment. It's getting late and I'm tired and I just have too many jumbled thoughts in my head. Perhaps sometime soon I will come back and write more about this.
I will just close with the statement that so far I've lived a life that's very different than the typical person, and the chances of this changing at some point in the future are slim and none.....