As I’ve been sitting in my room this gorgeous Sunday afternoon, finally getting in a good day of relaxation, I was flipping through various websites (is flipping the right term? I just don’t like to say “surfing”; it sounds so dorky) including the New York Times. Knowing what’s going in the world is a secret to success in my book. How can you plan to conquer the world when you don’t even know what the issues are?
I read almost all of the sections of the New York Times, except for the Science section and I spend a lot more time in the Styles, Home and Garden and Dining than anywhere else. But I must confess the most mortifying secret: the Wedding section with its feature story printed on Sunday is my favorite part of the paper. I feel like Katherine Heigl’s character in 27 Dresses though, thankfully, I don’t collect the stories or recite them from memory.
What draws me every Sunday to the stories is how incredibly sweet and amazing they are. Stories of high school sweethearts reconnecting in their 30s to discover they were still in love, two addicts overcoming the odds and falling for one another, passengers on a plane from opposite coasts discover love over a weekend, they are all stories of incredible love that it’s hard to believe exists sometimes. I may present a hard exterior of a girl happier in non-committal relationships, fully able to relish my freedom, but deep down I am very much a romantic at heart. It touches me to think that despite everything that happens in the world, these men and women could find the one person to share their dreams and their happiness. It’s scary to think it might be luck that brings you together with the right one for you but it also gives me hope that it can happen. It might even happen for me when the time is right just like Heigl says in the movie, “Someday will be my day.”
