Just finished watching an old American teen movie "classic" from the 80s: "Pretty in Pink". This was a movie me and my Trini grilfriends adored. Now looking at it in adulthood it saddens and actually angers me to think that young teenage girls think that love is instant and that it can triumph over adversity while its victims only know each other on a superficial level. Every conversation the lovers have revolves around how she is not accepted and how he "loves" her anyway...at first sight I might add. They never actually have a conversation. And yet we teenagers were satisfied that the "look" they gave each other was enough to confirm that theirs was an instant, permanent love that would conquer all. Such is the shallowness of American dreams.
And why do young girls fall in love so easily? Taylor swift has a song; the line is "When you're 15 and someone tells you they love you, you're gonna believe it". Why is this true because acting on these feelings will surely one's future life.
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