Here I go again getting all cynical about a relationship thinking to myself that it won't work. How can it work when it's an impossible love affair, or is it?
I recently discovered that a gay acquaintance has a May-December love affair with this another guy. I was saying to myself, " They'd eventually break up. That younger guy's just using the other one for money." It's bad thinking really, influenced by the stereotypes I grew up with "the gay benefactor in love with a younger man."
Yet, I was moved by their love story. They've been together for two years. I can't help thinking that everything would probably go well for them if not for the fact that they're both males.
It's tragic that I have this kind of thinking. Both deserve to be happy, and I, as an observer, have no right to judge their relationship just because they don't conform to my idea of a couple, just because they don't conform to what the society dictates to be right.
It's an eye opener, really. What I think to be a bizarre love affair may just be any other love affair if only I don't mind my prejudices and just look at the situation as it is.
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