How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and a Gentleman in 10 years

Last Sunday evening I watched Donald Petrie movie: ‘How to lose a guy in 10 days’. It was casually filmed ten years ago. In that time I met a charming gentleman that started courting me and woke up my desire to write. Soon he became my source of inspiration. Andie Anderson starred by Kate Hudson, writer who worked for a magazine called Composure as the "How to..." girl, was asked to write an article called "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”. Although she was unwilling with the idea, it came about when one of her friends, Michelle, experienced a minor breakdown after yet another break-up. Using her friend as inspiration, Andie revealed how she would actually start dating a guy and drive him away but "only using the classic mistakes women usually make". Unfortunately, the guy she chose, an advertising executive Benjamin Barry, acted by Matthew McConaughey, at the same time was striving for a pitch to advertise diamonds and explains to his boss and co-workers how "a woman in lust wants chocolate, a woman in love wants diamonds". When he questioned Ben's knowledge about love, Ben bet he could make any woman fall in love with him if he wanted to. If he could make any woman fall in love with him before the upcoming company ball, in just 10 days, he would headed the advertising for the new diamond company. My gentleman and I did not bet anything on this flirting but to live a different romantic experience out of our ordinary days. I was straighter with my thought more than with my sayings; he did the same with his intentions. We got to know deep feelings inside our hearts. We met in the unconscious stream of our past lives and we undertook unfulfilled promises beyond the times that left us astonished. Years past and we used to write messages, sometimes we talked on the phone and we met from time to time to spent hours talking with our hands about “our” things, or just life that go past by. From this starting point onwards, neither Andie nor Ben revealed their own identities and secret purposes, but friends and circumstances conspired to face them both to real love. No matter how hard Andie worked to make Ben break up with her in order to complete her article; Ben stayed with her despite everything in hopes of making her fall in love with him. I inspired my gentleman during his job trips and wrote a poem I will never forget. I found myself doing any kind of creative gifts and everything I read was related to his words regards me. We met sometimes in the middle of the road to drink smiles and swim in shadows of deep glazes. But with the passing of years it was turning difficult to find the time to share; months raced and avoided our intention of encounters, brief messages with excuses for meaning replaced loving words. Forget…me not were my tears blowing down my cheeks last summer wind. When they were very close to breaking up they attended couples counseling and they agreed, as a solution to “their” problems, to visit Ben’s family for the weekend. While they were together, Ben and Andie began to form a genuine bond, playing card games with the family, learning to ride Ben's motorcycle. Upon arrival home Ben even referred to Andie as "his girlfriend". Our relation is almost finished because I was tired of waiting patiently destiny delivering the ideal opportunity to coincide in a determined place at any point in time. Many lonely hours looking for my gentleman, not so gentle nowadays, who never arrived… Andie tried to explain to her boss Lana that she could not continue writing and publishing this article as she had "really got to know this guy", but Lana remained insistent upon it. Around the same time, Andie and Ben went to the company ball together where Ben's boss, Phillip, met Andie and told Ben that he "had met her, she loves you, you win". Seeing Ben's good news, some envious colleagues set about to ruin it for their co-worker, spread the news about the bet to his close friends, so Andie knew about the bet all along and was playing along to help Ben win. Although Ben’s friends rushed to Andie's side and beg her to keep quiet, they did not realize she was still blissfully unaware. Almost simultaneously, Andie's boss Lana - who was unaware of Ben's role in Lana's "How To" article - revealed Andie's true intentions to Ben. I tried to reveal the reasons for we should bet on this special friendship. I wrote a letter: We are part of each other, we have no other interests (money, jobs) but caring one another and we had lived so many loving encounters even beyond our presences…. .Silence. Long lonely Silence. As he did not appear I sent him delicate pictures with sweet words to remain hidden in my essence…. But the answers never returned. Upon learning of each other’s bet, they attempted to humiliate in many publicly ways such as singing ridiculously and they even did a duet alternating the lyrics to accused mutually about cheating one another. They went their separate ways before Ben is shown Andie's article and encouraged to read it. She explained in it how she "had lost the one man she ever fell for", and when he heard she had quitted her job at Composure and is on her way to Washington, D.C. for an interview, he chased her taxi and stopped her. Once he accused her of running away, they revealed their true feelings for each other and the film ended with Ben's instructing the taxi driver to return Andie's belongings to her home, and then they kissed and lived for ever happily. Uncovered our intentions,-his about seizing the day and mine about eternal romantic courting, - flirtation came to an end. We lived ordinary lives. When he invaded my memory I sent a short message or intended a phone call. He never answered any of them. With his angel smile echoed in my mind I write to my Pegasus… because I lost my gentleman; even after revealing my true feelings to him. I have eaten my chocolates and rejected my diamonds just for the sake of love in freedom. But nobody appeared to rescue my romantic self. This is a real ending or perhaps as it is not happy I can always be hopeful and expect… real gentlemen do not disappear. They vanish away riding white Pegasus across the sky of ladies dreams.