All kinds of romances

I have exams for my third module starting next week, so I thought, why not gear up, before I head up for all the "module end" parties this week, I should look into what the syllabus looks like. I got up and got my notebook and pens ready. I wanted things to be smooth, so I decided to find the coolest-looking pen in my stationery drawer. And there was a sudden realization that so far in my life, I've had the privilege to experience all kinds of romances possible, and that made me wonder if I don't romanticize my life enough (and the answer is that I don't).


To walk you through these different categories, I've had a school romance where you look for each other in the corridors just to blush on their first appearance, a coaching romance where getting a ride home is the most romantic thing you can think of, a college romance where you wait for each other's schedules to match to go out on a coffee date, an office romance where you wait the whole day just to spend the evening with a lover and rant about all the office folks over coffee, a live-in type of romance where cooking together is the best part of your morning, and a long-distance romance where you get to vicariously experience a completely different life with your lover's tales. When I look at it this way, it makes me realize that life isn't all bad. Of course, this academically challenging degree of an MBA is challenging me to my core, and I have no time left for myself or my friends, but romanticizing life might make it a little better every day.   


But how do you do that? How do you romanticize a life when you feel like you've become a completely different person that you may not know anymore? Perhaps you start by going on solo dates just to understand yourself bit by bit, or perhaps you wear clothes a little more colorful just because it makes you feel like a pretty flower? This suddenly makes me realize that getting "main character vibes" is what you do to get there, however that might be. So, I suggest that you have just one thing every week that makes you fall in love with yourself over and over again. And you keep doing that until you realize that you made yourself 52 times better every year.

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