A Lot Like Love

There's nothing better than a great romance to ruin a perfectly good friendship.

I watched A Lot Like Love starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet yesterday. It's a typical romantic comedy about two people who met on a flight to New York. The movie showed how they pursued their dreams over the years. It also showed how they were perpetually brought back together by destiny and fate and all those fancy stuff. Everything happened with their relationship in a limbo - not just friends, but not quite lovers.

I personally can relate to guy friends - guy best friends, even. Being in a family with a lot of girls, I appreciate a male presence once in a while. That's why I look for kuyas in a lot of friends. I like the idea of being someone's little sister - having someone to curse that jerk who broke my heart or approve of the guy I met out of nowhere.

Now, falling for a friend is another story. This happens all the time. As someone said, it's "the most common drama between friends." What makes it hard is if the love is one-sided. And since they're friends, the hurt doubles, as in this Peyups article. Love is complicated enough. Add an existing friendship to that, then it becomes even more so.

A Lot Like Love showed how an initial attraction developed into a lasting friendship. It showed how two friends took the risk together, even if it meant ruining a perfectly good friendship.

Well, if Ashton Kutcher sang

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you

to me, I'd readily throw that friendship out the window.

*photo taken from http://www.empiremovies.com/posters.php?id=1946