Reaching For You.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

was watching jerry maguire this afternoon and i happened to catch the emotional part where tom cruise realises that he loves renee zelleweger.
you complete me.
the famous line of the show.
handsome and charming tom cruise saying that.
i would have probably swooned like the rest of the female viewers if i didn't watch oprah yesterday.

maybe it's cos i'm on holiday and i've been busy busy busy during this whole holiday that you give me 2 days of rest and suddenly i don't know what to do with myself that i'm starting to watch gossipy talk shows and sappy romantic movies.
yesterday it was featured on oprah that a man nicknamed casanova actually had 9 women he was either married to or engaged to over the span of 2 years.
how these women actually got conned i have no idea.
this man actually proposed within weeks of meeting them and they actually had no qualms about saying yes.
because he knew what to say at the right time.
he looked average.
they knew next to nuts about him except that he claimed that he was either in the navy or the airforce.
and that he always turned up for dates in his uniform.
isn't that like a big giveaway?
like doesn't this guy have clothes or is he psycho or something to wear the same thing all the time?
and he managed to carry on this facade till one of the last of his fiancees' or wives' or whatever's mother found cheques missing and checked up on him to find out that he had been to jail and had been married so many times.
funny how she gets suspicious of a man who steals money from her yet she wasn't suspicious of him when her daughter decides to get hitched to a man she barely knew.
huh.
durr-brains.
and guess what?
he actually used the line, "you complete me."
eurgh.
no wonder i got put off tom cruise just now.

so there's this psychiatrist on oprah, dr robin smith or other, who's an expert on relationships and she gives all these women advice on how they should move on and how they should rectify mistakes.
one thing she said was that women nowadays, even though with sexual equality and what with most of them being career women and "independent", are still trained to think that we're insufficient by ourselves and that we need a relationship, specifically one with a man, to complete us.
she said that we should learn how to complete ourselves with our family and by ourselves so that we won't have to depend on men to complete us.
this is to save us from being desparate to hang onto relationships cos most women think their lives aren't worth it if they don't have a husband or boyfriend.
sad, but the real facts of this world.
some might think it's sexist, but i think that we should really let God be the one to complete us.
not fallible humans who will fail us at times.

i felt far away from God for a few days and i'm so glad that i'm back right beside Him.
cos i've been feeling empty and hollow the past few days.
and it's no wonder because i wasn't tuned in to God.

You complete me, Father.

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