A Failed Life Experiment

If you've known me for a little bit, you know how lonely I can get sometimes.  I've been without a girlfriend for quite a while and I don't really socialize all that much.  For this reason, I decided a while back to implement an experiment.  For every weekend that I don't have something planned (going out on a date or going out with my friends), I would have to sit at home alone and force myself to watch a romantic comedy.  At first, I thought Yes!  This will motivate me more to go out and socialize and meet new people!  I was wrong.  My experiment backfired.

I now look forward to the nights on the weekends that I have nothing going on.  Why?  Because I get to forget about how crappy life is sometimes for average people.  I get to sit on my couch with a bag of popcorn and watch life happen for someone who deserves it.  For instance, the first time I decided to implement this rule, I watched the movie Sixteen Candles.  Side note: John Hughes must have been put in the friend zone like a million times in order to keep coming up with these stories.  So... Sixteen Candles: A struggles to get through the day on her 16th birthday, which her entire family has forgotten about because her older sister is getting married the next day. She is also plagued by infatuation with a popular and attractive boy at school.  Sounds like a total snooze-fest right?  Except you start to realize that she is similar to every other girl out there and it makes you think about how applicable everything in these movies are.  Although, I'll probably never get that cute, popular boy to ever go to the dance with me.  Not that I want to, but... you know what I mean.

It's the same every weekend, though.  It makes you forget about how stupid life is by watching how stupid life is.  I am excited about leaving for basic training, though.  Because now I don't have to justify my reasons for watching romantic comedies and not going out to "hook up with biddies."  I can just do what I'm supposed to do down there in the Georgia heat.

If you don't feel like watching a million rom-coms, you can bypass them all and just watch Not Another Teen Movie.  It's got every stereotype and combines the plots to all of the big movies out there (especially brat pack films).  And if you don't feel like going "full sad sap" you can always just pick Weird Science out and watch that instead.  Still, at its core, about some socially awkward kids trying to transition to socially awesome.  I still think the movie is applicable.  Everyone finds love in a John Hughes movie, except for the bullies.  ...And maybe Cameron Frye.  Poor Cameron.

For good measure, here's a song that appears to be in every single rom-com from the 90s: