As much as I didn't think I would I'm pretty sure I learned something....

So this weekend my mom rented two movies, Miss Congeniality 2 and The Notebook.

I actually wanted to see Miss Congeniality 2 cause I love Sandra Bullock, but wansn't too thrilled about The Notebook. From all that I'd heard, it was a chick-flick... (something that I really can't stand much of)

Well, on Sunday night my mom and I watched it, and I have to say that for a chick-flick that was somewhat predictable and generally untrue... I liked it. I think it was just the fairy-tale of a first love lasting through the years and ending up so real... not something where life was perfect forever, but a constant struggle. It was how they knew they were going to fight every day, and disagree over things, and yet they still chose that life, because it meant they would be together. I realized that that kind of love is the kind I want to find. I don't want to be with someone cause it's the safest, or will be the easiest, or because I don't want to work hard at it... I want to be challenged constantly... but to know through everything that 'he' will always be there and I'll be challenging him too.

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Duke: They didn't agree on much. In fact they rarely agreed on anything. They fought all the time and they challenged each other everyday... But in spite their differences, they had one important thing in common, they were crazy about each other.

Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin'
Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
Allie: So what?
Noah: So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.
Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.
Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?

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That's what I want....