False Expectations

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Ive been thinking about this lately. As I keep reading YA and books in general Ive been coming up against the same question over and over again.

Are books (and of course the media) making us have false expectations?

Like an example would be couples in YA. Sure they get in fights, and they brake up, they cry, they cheat, they sometimes even die. But one way or another they always come back together. I guess it teaches us that everything can be resolved at the end if your love is strong enough, but in RL (real life) things sometimes don't end up with a bouquet of red roses and happy music in the background, ya know?

Or let's consider this. You all must know of Twilight right? If not, well, what is the number of your cave so that I can come over and hide with you? Anyways, this series brings a perfect

example. Edward. The perfect guy. He is tender, he is sweet, he is HOT, he wears white bloody armor. Sure he could stalk you a little bit and be super over protective but hey every guy has it's downside. My point is, he is just tooo perfect. The relationships are just too perfect. Who is here going to tell me they have never said "Oh, I wish he was real" or have expected that everything is going to end up with a pretty red bow? I have a couple of times, damn I wish I lived in a YA novel.

Because everything seems like it's destined to be and you just know who is going to end up with whom and that they are meant to be together for ever and ever. Hello that's why we are in love with the Vampire thing. It isn't because of the good looks or the money. It's because when you find that special person you get to be with them forever. And you know that life and those precious moments won't ever end.

But in RL... It's so much more difficult. You never know who's going to end up with whom. There is no "one unique love" because it may not only be one person who may touch your life and leave it like it never was before. It may be two, it may be three. The thing is you never know. How do you know that this is the right one? Answer, you don't. Some may argue that that is the beauty of life, confronting the unexpected and living. But some may just want to buy a magic 8 ball who can help them along the way.

I wish Bones from Jeaniene Frost's novel was real. Oh...Yeah... Or Spades (Also a Jeaniene Frost character)... Or Wrath from The Black Dagger Brotherhood... Or Peeta from The Hunger Games... I could go on and on.

But there is a point you gotta stop trying to make everything perfect like the book and start dealing with what life is right? Are we going to start confusing what's real and what's not? Are we in the path to becoming those women who are in the search for their YA and shiny armor? Or it could include men you know... No comment.

What do you think? Are you suffering from YAxpectations?

*Kind of wrote this at 2 a.m. so please if I made any mistakes tell me so I can edit lol