Love Stories

So this was prompted by the loads of junk also referred to as chick flick novels that have become the rage these days. To be honest, I couldn’t stand another minute before writing on this because apart from a chosen few, cliché love stories are seriously starting to get on my nerves.

Each starts off with a bad boy and a timid goody two shoes who’s never let loose, never gotten drunk, never skipped class. But then she falls in love with the ever popular and everyone’s desired bad boy and voila there’s a connection! (If life were that easy for the rest of us, rishta aunties would go out of business) Now the boy falls for our heroine who is the geekiest girl you could ever imagine and drops not-so-subtle hints blatantly right in her face to which any girl would immediately react to but no! Our heroine will be still seeing him through the glasses of ‘Can never happen’ and therefore chooses to ignore it thinking he’s out of her league. (Which to be honest, he is.)

Oh, but then they catch themselves in random situations and stolen moments which render them both breathless and the girl spends nights lying awake in her bed smiling at the ceiling, (but no dark circles ever appear because duh love is the cure for everything perhaps even Ebola). Yet even after numerous encounters nothing happens and here the writer builds up a tension between the two and attempts to intrigue us. After about ten more chapters of beating about the bush, it finally happens and we would rather be spared the excruciating details thank you very much. If I wanted to read that, I would have gone elsewhere.

Anyway, the best part is that the bad boy whom we were introduced to in the beginning has entirely vanished at this point and has been replaced by an angel sent from Heaven above. Just a few days of being with the nerdy girl converts the guy into a Saint. Of course they become a couple but since it all cannot be that easy, the author involves a hurdle between the two, maybe a misunderstanding, or a secret untold till this point but together the Terrific Two get over that as well and continue with their happily ever after.

N.B.-I’m not against love stories. I’ve read countless good ones but fact of the matter is, originality is something rarely found these days. It is a sad world indeed.

Written by Roha Sitwat