#How boy (really) gets the girl
Love, and the advantages of being ordinary
In the language of love, there is much talk about the inexplicable "connection" that two people discover or the fiery "chemistry". This is meant to explain why women choose regular guys when they could have been with more gifted men. But we can never be sure how much of this chemistry is influenced by the far less glorious circumstances of the players involved or how much of this is in reality plain misconceptions or delusions that people wish to surrender to because they are tired of loneliness. And there is the matter of equal handicaps.
In their desperate search for love to save themselves from becoming animals, men, and women who are handicapped in some form also search for similar flaws in others. In the real world that the film parodies, love is very rarely a match of the strong and often a union of equal weaknesses. And there is much beauty in that.
It does not matter what creates it, there is such a thing as love. It is our finest form of insanity, and we must not be too troubled by whether its origins are sound at all.
#A Philosophical take
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