While my parents were watching a filipino soap opera, I came by and...
- (All loosely translated)
- main guy: See all that land over there? I'll buy them for you; that's where we'll put up our palace.
- -insert more fluff-
- main guy: Like the air around us, my love for you will always be around you.
- main girl: Like the air around us, without your love I won't live.
- -insert more fluff with odd similes and proclamations of everlasting love-
- -more fluff with a hint of a love triangle but still hanging onto the "like the air" symbolism-
- -more fluff here too but now with angst concerning class differences; still with lines akin to "like the air"-
- Me: ...is that how couples talk to one another? Is that how you guys talk to one another?
- Dad: Of course. I told her I'm an Airbender. Won her over.
- Me: pfft.
- Mom: No such thing. He said nothing like those lines.
- Dad: No, no. That's how your mom fell in love with me. Airbender.
- Mommy: No.
- ---
- So I take it that romance in the media aren't accurate portrayals of real life romantic relationships? Well, there goes my almost nonexistent knowledge on romance.
