So…here I am. Doing this funny thing I always thought I would do…but somehow took forever to get to. Sounds like the rest of my life actually. But since it’s my first entry, I feel obligated to dedicate it to the man mostly responsible for getting me here–my friend, B Diddy (better known to some as Ben Combs…tho I don’t know where he got that name from). If you have no idea what the heck I’m talking about, I’ll plug a link to his blog entry that should explain the whole thing. Well…just as soon as I figure out how…
That being said, I just got done watching Definitely, Maybe–a chick flick, for those who don’t know–but I watched it with the guys. It was definitely an interesting experience…in fact, I think I’m still processing it. Which is no doubt why I now find myself writing about it. It was surprisingly something I needed. But it wasn’t just the movie (tho the movie was quite good too), it was the whole night. A night of “bromance” I suppose. It actually started with Ben and I looking almost like a gay couple as we picked up some stuff for dinner at Smith’s…just spending quality time with quality friends. And then it was followed up with one of my roommates admittedly moping around the house after having been shafted by his most recent love interest…something that led to a discussion around the kitchen counter of the differences between men and women and how often girls can break a guy’s heart even under the best of intentions not to. It then ended with Ben, Vince and I watching a chick flick like a bunch of girls. And I’m not gonna lie, I almost cried. It was heart-wrenching at times. But true to the genre…it had a happy ending. So maybe that’s why girls love them so much. They restore that ideal of hope that in the end…everything does work out. And tho he said he wasn’t in the mood for it, I think it would have done my roommate some good to have watched it with us.
My point is…guys have feelings too. We have emotional needs that require just as much attention as girls do…we just don’t like to talk about them quite as much. And so when it comes down to it, I’m glad that I have friends that I can share them with…even without saying a word.
