Forgetting (Insert Name Here)
Posted by wenchwit on April 27, 2008
The first I had heard of it was when the girls, my friend and I saw billboards along the highway about some chick named Sarah Marshall. I initially thought some guy must have had it pretty bad to lay out the cash to bemoan his doomed relationship on a billboard. But, I was mistaken (note I didn’t say ignorant). Turns out to be a movie, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” I knew NONE of the actors or actresses, but it has to be one of the funniest movies I have seen, next to “Juno,” of course. The premise behind the movie was a good one. Guy gets dumped, guy assuages his hurt feelings with booze and women, guy goes to Hawaii to get over her only to find out she is in the exact same hotel with her new boyfriend. Let the games begin…
The mind is a funny thing. I have never gone to such extremes to get over someone, so either I didn’t really have it that bad, or my mental health is better than most people think it is. More often than not, I focus on the venomous parts of a doomed relationship. When it all comes right down to it, it doesn’t matter who did what to whom. It takes 2 to tango, and in the end, neither wins. There’s a shitload of money spent on psych drugs and there are a shitload of therapists who have refurnished their offices from the emotionally fractured, and that’s a shame.
I’m no longer a “low tolerance” kinda gal. I’m a “no tolerance” kinda gal. Fool me once — you’re history. It HAS to be that way. I wasted a lot of time on stupid, ill-fated relationships, and time is a pretty precious commodity, it turns out. Other than making me laugh and giving me a peek at male full-frontal nudity, the movie brought to the front the fact that while I have failed in one relationship or another, it was not just MY failure, and “when the other shoe drops,” the best action is to bury it. The other theory I have developed through my vast (cough, gag, puke) experience of the male/female kind is that if one waits long enough, gives another enough rope, the warts will be in full view and one can save himself a lot of trouble by playing the waiting game. I play that game constantly. I have several suitors with whom I play that very game. Score: Wench 5, Suitors 0.
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