Affection

Once your vote is cast, there is not much to do except lie around and wait for the result. Unless you count the pile laundry, ironing and university related work that is lying around waiting for your attention… Which I am not. For some reason, a line from a movie kept going around my head today. I finally went online and found it. It’s from a 1998 Jennifer Aniston film (The Object of My Affection) where she falls in love with a gay man. A couple of lines in this movie are murder.

“One shouldn’t be too hard on oneself when the object of one’s affection returns the favour with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped. “

“I want you to be with me, I want you to marry me, I want you to love me the way that I love you…. I want to look at you and not feel so hurt by you. “

Odd how the second dialogue sums up everything about human relationships. It is what we all want, is it not? Rather honest! At least it acknowledges the hurt and the pain that always comes along with love.