A pretty accurate quote from "Failure to Launch"
While I spent the last long weekend in bed, I managed to watch the movie "Failure to Launch" with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey. Even though I love Matthew, and thought the movie had a few nice comedic moments, the movie overall was just ok and nothing more than ok. But, Sarah Jessica Parker did say something in the end of the movie that really hit home. I dont have the exact quote but let me give you a little background of the scenario. Sarah was hired but Matthew's parents to get him to move out somehow because he's 30 something year old male who is still living with his parents! Matthew enjoys his lifestyle, and whenever any of his girlfriends starts wanting a serious commitment he takes them back to his place so they see that he lives with his parents, and they run off in the opposite direction. So he's always free, having fun, enjoying his time with no serious relationships. So sarah gets into a "fake" relationship with him in order to get him to move out. Of course, as you can guess, she's ends up falling for him and he finds out that she's fake so they break up. Back to the quote I liked, sarah tells matthew in the end how she loves him and wants him, so she asks him to choose between having his fun fun life full of freedom, or to leave that to have a life with her. Then Matthew says "well, life with you can still have some fun cant it?" That really is it isn't it? When a guy (or a girl) gets really scared of committing to someone it really is because of just that; they love how free their life is as a single person, and that even though they love their gf, they just dont see why they need to give up their lifestyle for them or give their all to them. Why does it have to be one or the other to begin with? As Matthew said, dedicating yourself to that loved one and including them more in your life can still definately include fun! That's the part of the movie I liked coz it was really real, you see a relationship coming towards you and the closer it gets the more freaked out you get coz you are so comfortable in your own little world. You ASSUME that you'll have to give up alot of fun times if you decide to go into this relationship that you see heading straight towards you. When actually, if you jump into it, you'll still have alot of fun times, and it'll develop into something new, with new fun experiences, you just need to be willing to make the choice to try it. Its a part in the movie that you have gone through, or have seen your friends go through many times before, but I just love how the movie put it because it really is a tough choice coz you are picking one kind of fun over the other, and to bring yourself to choose can sometimes be hard.

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