{"id":2544,"date":"2009-07-26T23:51:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2009-07-26T23:51:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:51:05","slug":"modern-relationships-here-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"Modern relationships here and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>You grow to love each other<\/i>, an article described arranged marriages.  <i>And that&#8217;s the journey when both the husband and wife are looking forward to growing into love.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It stuck me as I watched the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/500daysofsummer\/\">(500 Days) of Summer<\/a> today with Daisy.  <\/p>\n<p><b>spoiler alert<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall the many times that I found myself deluded into thinking <i>this is what I want<\/i>.  And to find that 3 months later, I was foolish to think that I was right.<\/p>\n<p>There was an entire year in Pittsburgh where I had one single person in mind.  I did everything in my willpower even when everything seemed to fail.  The many awkward moments and ignoring the <i>I am not ready for this<\/i>.  There was one poignant moment I remember at a party&#8230;where not because of alcohol (since I obviously didn&#8217;t drink any), I suddenly felt comfortable asking a question as the music was pumping, people were dancing around us in the basement of the house.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, anger was returned accusing me of asking a question when inebriation was imminent.  That I was taking advantage of the situation.  I remember leaving the party, licking my wounds.<\/p>\n<p>About four months later, I returned to California.  Then two months after, I realized how foolish I was.<\/p>\n<p>The movie spoke of fate and destiny.  But to me, it was the world that we create when we think we find the one.  I believe that we create our own fate\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat we have choices to make.  There is always one path where almost nothing will happen and then the other where a connection&#8230;although small may change your life.<\/p>\n<p>This is one reason why I have trouble saying no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You grow to love each other, an article described arranged marriages. And that&#8217;s the journey when both the husband and wife are looking forward to growing into love. It stuck me as I watched the movie (500 Days) of Summer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}