Be Careful When Putting Yourself Into the Story You’re Reading
Romance is hope
hope of what may come in the future
hope for happiness beyond imagination
hope for an end to loneliness
hope that one day I will be adored
as these heroes adore their heroines.
And so I continue to read the stories
to picture the kind and handsome men
to feel the tingles of butterflies
to imagine the moment love can no longer be held back
to tell myself that my story is still being written
that someday I will live out happily ever after.
Until that day—
the day I realize I am living a nonfiction romance—
romance’s hope is sometimes painful.
A parallel story could have played out in my life,
but the characters went in a different direction.
The one who could have been this hero
didn’t want to.
If I’m not careful,
I see his face in the love interest
opposite to my own in the heroine.
If I’m not careful,
the love story will lose its magic
and I’ll have to put it back on the shelf unread.
Someday, this story won’t feel like a tragedy
because I’ll find that the author had a much better ending in mind.
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