500 days of Summer, 2 minutes of Paul

I rewatched 500 Days of Summer yesterday, and I

realized something that I did not notice the first time

I watched the movie.

No one watched Paul.
(shall insert his face in case many of you ignored it)

At least, not me. Until yesterday, and the only reason
for that was because I was like, "HEYYYYYY that's
the guy I like from Criminal Minds!!!"

And that was about it. The rest of the time, I was more
concentrated on how heartbreaking it was that Tom
was being ditched like a sad bitch whilst Regina Spektor's

Hero played in the background.

*note to self: never play that song during a breakup, you

might as well dig your own grave and die.

Then it came to the last part. Probably the 400 something

day, and some of the dudes started talking about love,

and then Paul (the dude from criminal minds) said,

"I guess I just got lucky, um.. We met in Elementary School,
in 7th grade we had the same class schedule, and uh.. we
just clicked. You know, technically, the girl of my dreams
would probably have like, a really bodacious rack, you know
uh.. probably different hair.. and yeah, you know she'd probably
be a little more into sports. But um.. truthfully, Robin's better.
Robin's better than the girl of my dreams. She's real."

(MIND YOU, IT TOOK ME A LOT OF SEARCHING
ON GOOGLE FOR THIS FUCKING QUOTE. EVERYONE
ELSE ONLY CARES ABOUT HOW MUCH SUMMER
THOUGHT THEY WERE LIKE "SID AND NANCY". SO
I PAINSTAKINGLY WROTE DOWN WORD FOR WORD
FROM THE CB YOUTUBE VIDEO.)

Anyway, back to what I was saying, everyone was so focused on
the whole sadness of the story, that they did not notice this one happy
part.

There are guys out there, who do think you're way more beautiful
than you would give yourself credit for. And despite saying that
Jessica Alba's the best thing to happen to men, they never dare tell
you that you are the best thing that's happened to them.

I guess if I was in some shitfucked relationship, I'd have probably
cancelled that dude's voice out. No one's ever that lucky to have
met in Elementary School. But I know some people who've been lucky
to have met after they each divorced, or after their partner died.

So the point is, for those people who have cried buckets over the
loss of their "summer" and are looking for "autumn", I say please give
up all that drama.

Why not settle instead for someone like Paul?