Me according to life

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC!

There... I said it!
I'm an aboslute softy. You never would've guessed it, would you?

Well, I am. I buy roses, send late night and early morning texts... All that other soppy stuff that I wouldn't want to list on such a public domain. But I am. It's who I am.
I write poems... Yes, poems. Why? To express how I feel. I can't tell most people how I feel about them, so I write it down instead. It's always been my failsafe. "Can't talk, read this."
Funnily enough, I know a lot of other guys that get as tongue tied as I when confronted with a member of the opposite sex. And, unsurprisingly I might add, they are all like me, writers.

Which leads me to think, is romance really dead? Or has society just scared the romantics into hiding?

I'm not even going to bother lying, I don't know what women want these days. I don't even attempt to pick them up when I go out. I've kinda just left it in the Big Guy's hands. "If it's going to happen, it's going to happen." Of course there's the envitable, "Wake up the next morning with your mates telling you that you spaded the entire pub last night" but I learn to take those with a pinch of salt.

"If I don't remember it, it didn't happen!"

It actually sounds really stupid coming from a guy that acts all macho in front of his mates when he sees an attractive women walk past, but inside I'm thinking, "I'd like to get to know her better. I wonder what her interests are." Lame, I know, but that's just how some things work in this world.

When people say romance is dead, what do they actually mean? Is the virtue of romance no longer there or has our idea of romance in this day and age altered to such a point that we don't even know what the original concept was?

"What are you willing to do for the one you "love"?

Whatever your answer to that is, think about it this way. Whatever it is that you said you are willing to do, would you do it with a gun to your head? I'm guessing most of the answers would be "yes"... But then again think about it this way, would you do it first thing in the morning before you've even brushed your teeth? Ok, maybe first thing after brushing your teeth. :P
Do you really deserve to call yourself someone else's significant other if you aren't willing to do everything for them.

Quick question...

How many men out there hold a door open for a woman to pass? Pull the seat out for their partners when out for dinner? Open car doors so their partners can enter?
See? Lost. NOT dead!

Society is too busy teaching our youth random crap. I remember being taught manners.