On Pre-Packaged Sentimentality
"But how can sentimentality be pre-packaged?" you ask. "It doesn't come in boxes." Ah, well let me enlighten you through a method other than shoving a floodlight in your face. Basically, you know those really cheesy, clichéd statements which bear no relation to reality? No? Good, you're living in the real world. Failing that, if you're under the age of, say, 25 they're probably clogging up your news feed. You don't have Facebook? It appears the 21st century left you behind. Ah well, when global thermonuclear war strikes and the CIA hacks everyone's Facebook to find out who did it, at least you can shout triumphantly from your hidden bunker that the aliens didn't get you , at least. Shame the above scenario is rather unlikely (for which read almost impossible) to happen. Anyway, pulling up a random example from Facebook now: " 3 things I want in a relationship: Eyes that wont cry, lips than wont lie, and love that wont ...