Unlikely

So Demi is officially divorcing Ashton. Apparently, this news is a week old already, but because I’ve been too preoccupied with less important things (i.e. current events in local politics. Haha), I found out about it only today.


I’m not a fan of the couple or of them individually (although I saw Demi’s documentary on CNN about human trafficking and I was impressed) but I have to admit that their breakup kinda makes me sad because I was silently rooting for their marriage to work.


You see, I’m a fan of unlikely relationships. I’m a sucker for love stories about couples who weather the odds and defy social norms just to be together. Which is why it used to make me smile every time Demi would say during interviews that she wouldn’t have believed it if someone had told her when she was in her 20s that in her 40s, she would meet a 20 something guy who would say that being with her and her kids is his best blessing yet. How sweet is that, right?But then they still broke up, and it makes you wonder if unconventional relationships really have a place in this world.


I mean, I’m all for convention and it also brings me joy when friends of mine who seem perfect for each other marry and live happily ever after, but when it’s an unlikely relationship that works, it serves as a reminder to me that love does conquer all. Maybe this explains why, when it comes to matters of the heart, I always choose to take the path where there’s most resistance.


A friend pointed out to me just last night that I always tend to gravitate towards complicated bordering on impossible relationships. Well, maybe I’m abnormal this way. Or maybe there’s something in my growing up years that made me think that love always has to prove itself to me. And at the rate I’m going, I have yet to see whether love is really as powerful as they say. Right now, I’m more inclined to think that if they who lasted for eight years could still end up in such a bitter state, then maybe love can only do so much. And for all its claims that it can conquer all, cast out all fears, and move mountains (or is it prayer that can do that? Haha), it cannot save the day for unlikely relationships.


Sigh. So much for being a romantic.