Smile, Inc.

Here in the northeast, we have been suffering through a bit of a rough patch. It's generally been 
freezing around the slice of surburbia where I live in, but today it was a little bit out of the ordinary.
Today was when I suffered through two hours of dental agony...

My parents, being smart and sensible, schedruled a jam packed schedrule for this afternoon. A cleaning at the dentist, followed by a regular tune-up at the orthodontist. But ordinary, turned out to be an hour long ordeal of scraping gums, and I wasn't even finished the afternoon.

I just lay there slumping on the chair thinking about my life, and where to go next in life. When you are a teenager, you might spend hours thinking about how lost we are, and what is our place here on this very earth. And I was thinking about love.

Every year, around Valentine's day, all of us single people here in the world (which according to the NYtimes, we're in the majority) spend our days trying to surrive, despite the bombardment of messages of love, and of true happiness.

I used to be like, whatever and pass by all the advertisements, pass by thinking about anything else. But you can't escape it. In fact you're paralyzed by it. All is fair in love and war; we live our lives so unsure about life, and everything else.

So, I'm trying to spend Valentine's day with someone special. Maybe I'll suceed, maybe I'll fail miserably, but I know I can try. One of my good friends said in this modern world you don't need to "court" a girl. But then again I'm a old fashioned hopeless romantic. C'est la vie, that's life.......