I Love a Sappy Love Story

All my life I’ve always loved a sappy love story.  As a youngster, Cary Grant movies were my favorite.   I loved his humor and the always happy endings.   I never missed a Shirley Temple movie, the Thin Man series, Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.  I remember sitting on the floor in front of our black and white TV watching intently.   I still love the Hallmark Movies although they are all made with the same formula. 

Situations in life don’t always have the happy endings we want, but I am an optimist and believe that the results are as they should be.   Synchronicity is always working in our lives and we can’t force what we want to happen, although it is tempting at times. 

In my 20’s, I worked for a doctor.   He was a great boss and doctor.   I remember one time when he called me into his office to talk to me about a complaint one of the patients had made about me.   He was smiling and I thought what the heck?   I thought how can he be smiling when he wants to talk to me about a complaint and it’s about me?   He proceeded to tell me that one of the patients was tired of my upbeat attitude and constant smile.   With a smile on his face he said, “you really have to stop that.”   I laughed also.  I will say that this patient was never very happy.    After that happened sometimes my boss would laugh and tell me during the day, “Please stop smiling”.  

Now when I look back, I am glad that I have always been happy.   Certainly, there were times in my life that I may have been a bit down and not the most upbeat, but most of the time, I am upbeat.

The toughest time in my life was when I got a divorce in my mid 20’s.    My then husband moved out and told me he had to think about if he wanted to stay married.   I do remember thinking; this is sink or swim for me and I am not sinking.  It was a tough couple of years, but I actually came out of it a better person.   I was more confident, appreciative, and self-reliant.   So, there was a positive to a bad situation. 

I don’t sit on the floor anymore, but I do sit on my comfy couch and enjoy my sappy love stories and Hallmark movies.   There’s something to be said about a sappy love story.   Even if it is a bit unrealistic and sometimes silly, life is what you make of it and I’d rather be silly and upbeat, than focus on all the negatives of life.  Life isn’t always easy, so I say let’s focus on the positive and work through the negative at the same time.