Em warned me not to watch it. But sometimes you don't listen to sound advice, sometimes you have to find out the truth for yourself. When Em and I first saw the trailer for the movie "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past", we wondered if someone had stolen our brain and created a movie. Like all/most girls, we assume we are the exception, the "one who got away" if you will, the one who all the rules don't apply to. This movie, dangerously, gives me hope/ gratification in thinking that YES, every boy who I left/ who left me is still in some deep down place pining over the glory that is me. On my flight out to Vegas I watched this, and yes, I cried. What? My eyes were dry!
Let me make this clear, boys aren't born assholes, they become assholes. HOW? Well, because somewhere early in their romantic life, an Em or an Elle or a YOU spurned them, spurned them badly, without reason or regard. Maybe we broke their heart, or wreaked some other irrevocable romantic damage upon their tepid soul.
We wonder where all the good guys have gone? Well, we knew those boys. They existed once. We killed off their species with our carelessness. We thought we were destined for something better, or "different", because, who after all, in our day and age falls in love and STAYS in love with their first love? Our jadedness overcame us somewhere along the line. Who is to say that ATN (HS Bf) and I would have been happy 11 years later, but I can say with accuracy that I will never actually know because of my own actions, and I know, Em can say the same.
We now live in a world where we are paying for the sins we committed against GHOSTS OF BOYFRIENDS PAST and Karma is a dick.
Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less... - Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
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